Agricultural cooperatives in transition / edited by Csaba Csaki and Yoav Kislev

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Preface.. Introduction.. Part One.. Transformation of Socialist Agriculture.. Chapter 1.. Land Reform and the Future Role of Cooperatives in Agriculture in the Former Socialist Countries in Europe.. Part Two.. Theory and Its Application.. Chapter 2.. Participants’ Ethical Attitudes and Organizational Structure and Performance: Application to the Cooperative Enterprise.. Chapter 3.. The Competitive Role of Cooperatives in Market- Oriented Economies: A Policy Analysis.. Chapter 4.. Cooperative Income Allocation in the Presence of Multiple Products.. Chapter 5.. The Organizational Structure of Cooperatives: Centralization versus Decentralization of Decision Making Authority.. Chapter 6.. The Israeli Moshav as a Credit Union: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard.. Chapter 7.. Why Collectivization of Agriculture in Socialist Countries Has Failed: A Transaction Cost Approach.. Chapter 8.. Risk and the Collective Farm in Transition.. Part Three.. Empirical Econometric Analysis of Cooperative Experience.. Chapter 9.. Can Production Cooperatives Resolve the Conundrum of “Exclusionary Growth”? An Econometric Evaluation of Land Reform Cooperatives in Honduras and Nicaragua.. Chapter 10.. Cooperative Farming and Efficiency: Theory and Empirical Evidence from China.. Chapter 11.. Capital Structure in Agricultural Cooperatives: U.S. and Israel.. Part Four.. Lessons of Cooperative Experience.. Chapter 12.. Operational and Financial Performance of Farmer Cooperatives in Tanzania.. Chapter 13.. Experience with Collective Action and Cooperation in Agriculture in Israel.. Chapter 14.. Cooperative Movement in the Soviet Union: History and Future Prospects.. Chapter 15.. Transformation of Cooperatives in Hungarian Agriculture.. Chapter 16.. Coordination as a Strategy for Survival in the Argentine Grain Marketing Cooperative System.. Chapter 17.. Cooperatives, Marketing Orders and the Coordination of Supply and Demand for Perennial Crops in the U.S. .. Chapter 18.. Marketing Problems of the Agricultural Cooperative Societies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.. Chapter 19.. Rural Cooperation and the Stages of Economic Growth.. Part Five.. Historical and Legal Perspectives.. Chapter 20.. American Communes: The Historical Experience.. Chapter 21.. Solving Disputes by Arbitration in Cooperative Societies.. Part Six.. Abstracts of Symposium Papers Not Included in the Book.. Evaluation of Cooperative Performance by Its Members: Ignored Evidence of Impending Structural Breakdown in the Israeli Moshav.. Strategic Management Evolution in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives.. Restructuring Interfarm Cooperation and Modernization on the Two Sides of the Danube.. The Individual Member and the Kibbutz.. The Characteristics of Farmer’s Market Cooperatives in an Industrialized Country: The Case of West Germany.. Measurement and Evaluation of Cooperative Performance.. On the Effects of the Kibbutz Hiring Out Its Own Labor Force: Theory and Case Studies.. Cooperation, Communalism and Individualism: Rural Development and Land Settlement Schemes in Fiji and Jamaica.. A New Era for Cooperatives in the European Agro-Food Industries.. Author Index

Drawn from the observations and research of an international cast of contributors, this volume blends theory, econometric analysis, and lessons from the cooperative experience. Its chapters explore many of the dimensions of agricultural cooperation, including service, production, and credit cooperatives; pricing, efficiency, and competitive cooperatives in market-oriented versus centrally planned economies; and reforms and crises. This book will appeal to agricultural economists, students of agricultural economics, and practitioners in cooperatives in both industrial and developing countries. Csaba Csaki is currently president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, professor of agricultural economics at the Budapest University of Economics, and senior agricultural adviser at the World Bank. Yoav Kislev is professor of agricultural economics in the Levi Esh- kiol School of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. eng