農業研究開発の経済分析 : その動向と課題

概要

論文の詳細を見る
The purpose of this paper is to review current articles on agricultural research and to clarify the viewpoints for evaluation of agricultural research restructuring within developed countries. The method is to survey the papers related to agricultural research in the fields of public choice theory, research policy, political economy, and agricultural economics. In this study, the main stress falls on following three points. First, there were a great number of papers from the 1950s to 1970s in which it was asserted that agricultural research investment was too little. However, in the 1980s, there were increasing papers adopting a skeptical stance toward the assertion that such investment was too little. Controversy between these two assertions devolved, as a result, useful methods and viewpoints of analysis have been clarified. Secondly, agricultural research or the fruits of it was regarded as a pure public good until the 1970s. Recently, however, this proposition has been so undermined through the changing characteristics of agricultural technology that many authors have come to regard such research as a quasi-public good, under the direction of replacement of financial sources from public to private. Thirdly, it should be noted that the structure of the market deeply affects the distribution of the benefits of agricultural research. In the future, it is predicted that fewer of the benefits will be realized by producers, and more by consumers through the inelastic demand curve. On the other hand, political economy analysis indicates that the financial expense of research would not likely be supported politically by producers groups, who rather prefer to support the measures of subsidy or direct payment.
岐阜大学の論文
2001-12-25

農業研究開発の経済分析 : その動向と課題

スポンサーリンク

概要

著者

関連論文

スポンサーリンク