Total Quality Management or Agricultural Economics

Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings

Author: Joel E Ross

Acclaimed and used in over 200 colleges and universities around the country, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings has been completely revised and expanded to meet the growing demands and awareness for quality products and services in the competing domestic and global marketplaces. This celebrated text enhances the original seven chapters in the first edition with additional material, new case studies, and valuable new readings.

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A greatly revised and expanded text covering the key principles of TQM. Five new chapters discuss structure and teams; benchmarking; productivity, quality, and reengineering; the cost of quality; and the ISO 9000. Discussion questions, exercises, cases, and readings support the text and an extensive study of the Varifilm case illustrates good and not-so-good practices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Agricultural Economics

Author: H Evan Drummond

Decisions. Each of us makes hundreds of them every day. Economics is the science of decision making. Economics is the study of how we make decisions, why we make the decisions we make, and how the conditions under which decisions are made affect those decisions. Nearly a quarter of the economic activity in the United States is associated with the agricultural sector. Therefore, Agricultural Economics deals with decision making within the unique context of the broadly defined food and fiber sector.

This text takes a thorough look at agricultural economics from a broad perspective that emphasizes the linkages between and among financial institutions, the macro economy, world markets, government programs, farms, agribusinesses, food marketing, farm services, and the environment. The key concepts forming the foundation of how economists approach decision making—supply and demand, opportunity cost, diminishing returns, marginality, costs and returns, and externalities—are woven throughout the book in a style that is both clear and engaging, with real-world examples that are easily understood by any reader interested in learning about the economics of the food system.

Featuring:

• A new chapter on the food system introducing readers to the fundamentals of food production from the farm to the consumer
• Information on the 2002 Farm Bill, new to this edition
• Substantial revision of chapters on farm policy and market failure/environmental economics

Agricultural Economics is designed for flexible use in a one-semester (or two-quarter) undergraduate course, including Introduction to AgriculturalEconomics.

Table of Contents:

1. The Food Industry.
2. Introduction to Agricultural Economics.
3. Introduction to Market Price Determination.
4. Financial Markets.
5. Money and Financial Intermediaries.
6. Monetary Policy.
7. The Circular Flow of Income.
8. Fiscal Policy.
9. International Trade.
10. Agricultural Policy.
11. The Firm as a Production Unit.
12. Costs and Optimal Output Levels.
13. Firm Supply and the Market.
14. Imperfect Competition and Government Regulation.
15. The Theory of Consumer Behavior.
16. The Concept of Elasticity.
17. Food Marketing: From Stable to Table.
18. Futures Markets.
19. Farm Service Sector.
20. Investment Analysis.
21. Environmental Policy and Market Failure.
22. The Malthusian Dilemma.
23. Economic Development and Food.
Glossary.
Index.