Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture : Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure

Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97. By departing from conventionally analytical tools such as Cobb-Douglas and CES production functions, the author quantitatively analyses the production structure and productivity of Japanese agriculture for the second half of the 20th century. To achieve this objective the book uses newly developed analytical tools from the early-1950s through to the 1980s such as the duality theorem, flexible functional forms, and index number theories. By making full use of these newly developed analytical tools, the author offers comprehensive, consistent, integrated, and reliable empirical results for analysing the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture. Volume 1 utilises the crop-livestock multiple product total and variable translog cost to quantitatively assess production structure and productivity from 1957-1997. Important indicators of production are estimated for different size classes for each year and are compared over time. Furthermore, a distinctive feature of Volume 1 is the introduction of a newly devised method for decomposing the growth rate of labor productivity. This process departs from the conventional Solow growth account method, which is not explicitly integrated with the theory of the firm By departing from conventionally analytical tools such as Cobb6Douglas and CES production functions, the author quantitatively analyses the production structure and productivity of Japanese agriculture for the second half of the 20th century. To achieve this objective the book uses newly developed analytical tools from the early-1950s through to the 1980s such as the duality theorem, flexible functional forms, and index number theories. By making full use of these newly developed analytical tools, the author offers comprehensive, consistent, integrated, and reliable empirical results for analysing the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture. Volume 1 utilises the crop-livestock multiple product total and variable translog cost to quantitatively assess production structure and productivity from 195761997. Important indicators of production are estimated for different size classes for each year and are compared over time. Furthermore, a distinctive feature of Volume 1 is the introduction of a newly devised method for decomposing the growth rate of labor productivity. This process departs from the conventional Solow growth account method, which is not explicitly integrated with the theory of the firm Front Matter....Pages i-xlvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 An Empirical Investigation into the Production Structure of Postwar Japanese Agriculture: 1957–97....Pages 3-47 Estimating the Allen, Morishima, and McFadden Elasticities of Substitution....Pages 48-62 The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress....Pages 63-85 The Factor Bias and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis....Pages 86-110 The Output Bias of Technological Change....Pages 111-123 The Impacts of Scale Economies and Technological Change on the Growth of TFP....Pages 124-155 A New Method for Decomposing the Rate of Growth of Labor Productivity....Pages 156-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Total versus Variable Cost Function Approaches to Investigating the Agricultural Production Structure....Pages 189-226 Estimating the Shadow Value of Land and Possibilities of Land Transfers....Pages 227-259 Economies of Scale and Structural Change....Pages 260-278 Back Matter....Pages 279-311 Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97.