Descriptive Summary
UA 1231
Brigham Young University Economics Department,
1973-1986
Brigham Young University. Dept. of
Economics
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
11 boxes (5.5 linear feet)
The Brigham Young
Economics Department has been in existence almost since the school first began
in 1875. Between 1957 and 1973, at the advent of computers, the undergraduate
offerings in this department jumped from five courses to twenty-four, the
full-time faculty increased approximately 250 percent, and the number of
faculty with doctorates more than quadrupled. Economics examines how societies
choose to allocate scarce resources among competing uses. A broad range of
contemporary policy issues are studied in fields such as: food, agriculture,
and natural resource economics; economic development and growth, international
trade and finance, economic history, the organization of industries, the
development and efficiency of law, business cycles, labor markets, and public
and private finance.
This collection is made up of faculty
memos, correspondence, periodicals, and is mainly composed of reports sent to
the American Journal of Agricultural Economics for review, and perhaps to be
published in magazines and journals of economics.
Provenance
Transferred from Records Management, November 2005
Access
Restricted. Closed for 25 years after the creation of the records and
thereafter open to the public after consultation with the University Archivist
and in accordance with the General Restriction Statement of the L. Tom Perry
Special Collections.
Conditions of Use
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Department must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or
the Special Collections Board of Curators.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation: UA 1231; Brigham Young
University Economics Department; University Archives; L. Tom Perry Special
Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
Following Citations:UA 1231, LTPSC.
Biographical History
Founded in 1875, Brigham Young University has grown from a small
academy to one of the world's largest private universities, where more than
29,000 students gather from 100 countries. Sponsored by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU offers a unique educational environment that
promotes learning by study and also by faith. The Department of Economics has
been present since almost the very beginning. The Economics Department focuses
on providing a first-class undergraduate education in the discipline of
economics. Economics examines how societies choose to allocate scarce resources
among competing uses. A broad range of contemporary policy issues are studied
in fields such as: food, agriculture, and natural resource economics; economic
development and growth, international trade and finance, economic history, the
organization of industries, the development and efficiency of law, business
cycles, labor markets, and public and private finance.
Scope and Content Note
This collection is made up of faculty memos, correspondence,
periodicals, and is mainly composed of reports sent to the American Journal of
Agricultural Economics for review, and perhaps to be published in magazines and
journals of economics.
Notes on Arrangement
This collection was maintained in the order it was received in.
Subject Tracings
Institutions
Brigham Young University. Dept. of Agricultural
Economics
Genre/Form
Letters
Periodicals
Memorandums
Reports
Subject
Agriculture and state
Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Forecasting
Container List
Economics Department
Economics Department
1973-1986
Box
Folder
Content
1
1
Memorandums,
1978
1
2
Memos and Letters,
1977
1
3
Memos and Letters,
1976
1
4
Memos and Letters,
1975
1
5
Correspondence,
1983
1
6
Correspondence,
1984
1
7
Memos and Correspondence,
1982
2
1
Correspondence,
1981
2
2
Correspondence,
1980
2
3
Faculty Notes,
1980
2
4
Correspondence,
1979
2
5
ODE,
1973-1980
3
1
Graduation,
1980
3
2
Graduation,
1981
3
3
Graduation,
1982
3
4
Graduates, Post-Graduate Plans
3
5
Cotton and Wheat in the Egyptian Agriculture: A Dynamic
Econometric Analysis
3
6
Demand Estimation from a General Function: The
Johansen's Case
3
7
Preferences and Optimization
3
8
The Decision to Double Crop
3
9
Nonjointness: Input-Output Separability
3
10
Grain Port User Fees
3
11
A Theory of Future's Market Response to Government Crop
Forecasts
3
12
Agricultural Economists Awareness
3
13
A Ranking...Graduates
3
14
A Stochastic Dominance Comparison
4
1
Least Cost Subsidization Alternatives
4
2
Convexity Restrictions on the Mult-Output
4
3
Heterogenous Product and Input Regulation
4
4
Output Effect
4
5
An Empirical Analysis
4
6
Paper Reviews
4
7
The Estimation of Indifference Maps
4
8
Land Prices and Farm-Based Returns
4
9
Agricultural Supply Using Vector
Autoregressions
4
10
Substitution and Technical Change in the Greek Livestock
Sector
4
11
Agricultural Supply Response
5
1
Econometric Estimation of Producer's Risk
Attitudes
5
2
Competitive Equilibrium
5
3
A Note on Qualitative Forecast Evaluation
5
4
Consumer's Demand in a System of Partial
Rationing
5
5
Specification of Multiple-Product Technologies with
Allocatable Inputes
5
6
Technical Efficiency Measures for Dairy
Farms
5
7
Discussion Paper Series,
1986
5
8
An Alternative...Function
5
9
Impacts of Production...on Borrower's Costs
5
10
Return to Scale and Size in Agricultural
Economics
5
11
Accounting for the Distribution...Between Multiple
Outputs
6
1
The Long Run...Cost
6
2
Confidence Intervals...for Risk Aversion
6
3
Positive Quadratic Programming Models
6
4
Dynamic Equalibrium in Markets for Perennial
Crops
6
5
Sample Partitioning Bias...of the Food
6
6
Policy Induced Price Change
6
7
An Empirical Analysis...Preferences
6
8
Behavioral and Material Determinants...in
Agriculture
6
9
Constrained Output Maximization and U.S.
Agriculture
6
10
Demonstration...Limits
6
11
The Intercountry Agricultural Production
Function-Another View: Comment
6
12
Efficient Management...Markets
7
1
Economics of Land-Augmenting Irrigation
Technologies
7
2
Expected Utility, Debt-Equity, Structure and Risk
Balancing
7
3
Mechanical Harvesting
7
4
Consumer Benefits...Some Refinements
7
5
Expectations, Rationality...the Corn Sector
7
6
Equivalent Scales...Food Consumtion Survey,
1977-78
7
7
Corner Solutions...Production Decisions
7
8
Production Risk...Coefficient Model
7
9
Stochastic Intertemporal Duality...Empirical
Applicability
7
10
Rural Area Consumer Demand...Analysis:
Comment
7
11
Risk Modeling...Utility Function
8
1
Modeling Dynamic...Case of Swine Production
8
2
Arrow Pratt Intervals...Dominance Analysis
8
3
The Production Structure of Pennsylvania Dairy
Farms
8
4
Portfolio Diversification...Uncertain
Inflation
8
5
Nutrient Energy/Protein...Production
Economics
8
6
Criteria for Selecting Functional Form in Production
Function Analysis
8
7
Theory of the Firm...Forward Markets
8
8
Agriculturual Supply...Price Expectations
8
9
Distinguishing Between Initial and Final Outcome
Variables
8
10
Dominant Enterprise Size in the Swine Production
Industry
9
1
The Demand for Farm Output
9
2
Analysis of Selected...Simulation Approach
9
3
A Translog Cost Analysis...in the Mid-Atlantic
Region
9
4
Agricultural Productive...Values in Texas
9
5
Issues on Measuring Welfare Changes
9
6
Optimum Phosphorus Fertilization
9
7
Uncertainty and the Dynamic Economic
Threshold
9
8
Expectations Formation...Land Market
9
9
Incorporating Risk in Production Analysis:
Comment
9
10
A Rest of Nutrient Nonsubstitution
9
11
An Empirical Analysis...of Risk Preferences
9
12
Supply Responses...in Canada
9
13
Measurement of Biases...Once Again
10
1
Estimating Efficiency...and Profit Frontiers
10
2
Intertemporal Allocation...Rational
Expectations
10
3
Risk-Efficiency Analysis...in Corn and
Soybeans
10
4
Production Choices...Wheat Region: Comment
10
5
The Structure of U.S. Agricultural Technology,
1984
10
6
Liquidity and the Theory of the Firm
10
7
Measuring Inter-Regional...in Canadian
Agriculture
10
8
A Game Theoretic Model of Agricultural Supply
Response
10
9
Participation in Fam Commodity
Programs...Comment
10
10
AAEA Newsletters,
1984-86
10
11
Choices Magazine,
1986
11
1
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Reviews
11
2
Linkages Among Elasticities
11
3
Technical and Allocative Efficiency Under
Uncertainty
11
4
A Stochastic Dominance...Under Risk
11
5
Labor Quality and the Productivity of U.S.
Agriculture
11
6
Improving the Efficiency...Set Stochastic
Dominance