TY - JOUR
AU - Conrad, Jon M.
AB - Books Reviewed 873 Publications deriving from experienced goodness or badness of con­ stage problems, adaptive dynamic programming, ap­ ditions, situations, and things. proximately optimal infinite-stage solutions, quadratic returns with linear dynamics, and multiple objective pro­ George W. Ladd gramming. Iowa State University The third part of the text considers applications of dynamic programming to agriculture. Specific chapters are devoted to scheduling, replacement, and inventory Reference management (chap. 5), crop management (chap. 6), and livestock management (chap. 7). Topics within these Blaug, Mark. The Methodology of Economics. Cambridge: chapters include critical path analysis, farm investment Cambridge University Press, 1980. decisions, buffer stock policies, water management, pes­ ticide management, crop selection, fertilizer application, feed ration sequencing, and combined feeding and re­ placement decisions. Kennedy, John O. S. Dynamic Programming Appli­ The fourth part of the text examines applications in cations to Agriculture and Natural Resources. resource economics. Chapter 8 includes sections on ex­ London: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, haustible resources, pollution, and risky irreversible de­ 1986, xv + 341 pp., $76.00. cisions. Chapter 9 develops the discrete-time Faustmann Normative economics is concerned with how resources formula and a modified formula when a forest is at risk ought to be allocated among 
TI - Kennedy, John O. S. Dynamic Programming Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources. London: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, 1986, xv + 341 pp., $@@‐@@76.00
JF - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
DO - 10.2307/1242214
DA - 1987-11-01
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SP - 873
EP - 874
VL - 69
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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