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Abstract:
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Foreword / Vernon W. Ruttan -- 1. The Institutional, Scientific, and Policy Contexts -- 2. Research Evaluation and Priority-Setting Principles -- 3. Econometric Measurement of the Effects of Research -- 4. Economic Surplus Methods -- 5. Economic Surplus Measurement and Application -- 6. Mathematical Programming -- 7. Scoring and Other Shortcut Approaches -- 8. Assessment and Conclusion.
Resources for agricultural science are scarce across the world. Yet even as resources are shrinking, agricultural science has expanded its inquiry into many new areas - such as environmental preservation, food quality, and rural development - without forsaking its more traditional concerns. In a time of right government budgets, research administrators are faced with the need to provide strong evidence that costs are justified by benefits. Science under Scarcity is an invaluable guide to the theory and me
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