Browsing by Author "Steele, Scott R."
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Agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial partners in land use management: a policy-based characterization
Steele, Scott R. (National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)An organizational economic analysis of the agricultural enterprise illustrates that agricultural entrepreneurs are not the independent capitalist entrepreneurs they are often assumed to be. This paper offers an alternative ... -
Analyzing gender-based differential advantage: a gendered model of emerging and constructed opportunities.
Steele, Scott R. (National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)This paper develops and uses the Model of Emerging and Constructed Opportunities (MECO) to analyze the emergence of systematic institutional and gender-based differential advantage. Using an evolutionary process ... -
Conservation Research and Policy with Non-Trivial Transaction Costs and Incomplete Contracting
Steele, Scott R. (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Achieving conservation in the agricultural sector is difficult. The primary complicating factor is the large number of public-good environmental services that can potentially be provided by large numbers of individuals ... -
Production, information and property regimes : efficiency implications in the case of economies of scope
Steele, Scott R. (National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-04)A conceptual model and numerical example are used to show that private property regimes are not necessarily preferable to common property regimes on efficiency grounds when: (1) agents are risk averse; (2) exogenous ...