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Coping with Risk in Agriculture Paperback – 24 March 2004

by J B Hardaker (Author), R B M Huirne (Author), J R Anderson (Author)

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The popular first edition of this standard text on risk analysis and management in agriculture has been almost wholly revised. The second edition includes much new material. There is a revised chapter on incorporating decision makers' preferences into the analysis of risky choices that recognizes and gives consideration to some recently published challenges to the legitimacy of the expected utility hypothesis. While it is argued that the theory is still the best way to handle risk aversion, at least in prescriptive analyses, more attention is given to the practical problems of utility function elicitation. It is shown how estimates of (or ranges of) degree of risk aversion might best be obtained and consistently applied. The new edition has a much more thorough treatment of stochastic simulation, including some novel yet simple methods for dealing to stochastic dependency between uncertain quantities. The treatment of policy aspects of risk in agriculture has been revised and extended to account for such important current issues as new approaches to crop insurance, the management of serious animal and crop diseases and food safety issues. As with the first edition, the book contains a blend of theory with simple illustrative examples to enable readers to see how the principles being discussed can be made operational using modern software.

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Publisher : CABI; First edition (24 March 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0851998313
ISBN-13 : 978-0851998312
Dimensions : 23.11 x 1.78 x 15.49 cm

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I really enjoyed ready this book. I can recommend it without hesitation as a basic text. "

This is a very useful text which should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the analysis of decisions at the farm level. "

"An ambitious, comprehensive compendium of modern methods and techniques."

Reviews from the first edition: "There is no doubt that this textbook is viewed as a sound guide on managing risk in agriculture. It will certainly remain a leading textbook in farm management."

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J. Brian Hardaker, Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of New England (Emeritus). Ruud B. M. Huirne, Professor of Farm Management, Wageningen University. Jock R. Anderson, Adviser, World Bank, Washington, D.C..

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HowardChuang

A nice overview

Reviewed in the United States on 20 February 2011

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This book gives a nice overview of techniques that have been used by agriculture economists to facilitate risky decision-making. Someone who has received solid training in microeconmic theory, mathematical statistics, & operations research will benefit from reading this book. For example, the practical meaning of certain equivalens & risk aversion now becomes much more clear to me. On top of that, I find some tools that combine stochastic simulation and expected utility are useful to consulting and research.

One word of caution, this is not the right book for someone who is seeking for a rigorous theoretical treatment. Nonetheless, this piece itself is valuable to an analytical mind from both scholastic and pragamatic viewpoints.

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Mike

A good reference in this field.

Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2015