Can Economic Growth Be Sustained?

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INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Keijiro Otsuka, Contributions of Ruttan and Chapter 2: Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, Innovation Theory and Development: A Personal Account. In Bruce M. Koppel (ed.), Induced Innovation Theory and International Development: A Reassessment 22-36, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN AGRICULTURE Chapter 3: Vernon W. Ruttan, Contribution of Technical Progress to Farm Output, 1950-1975, Review of Economics and Statistics 38 (February 1956): 61-69. Chapter 4: Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Agricultural Productivity Differences Among Countries, American Economic Review 60 (December 1970): 895-911. TECHNICAL CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA Chapter 5: Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Korean Rice, Taiwan Rice, and Japanese Stagnation: Economic Consequence of Colonization, Quarterly Journal of Economics 84 (November 1970): 562-589. Chapter 6: S. C. Hsieh and Vernon W. Ruttan, Environmental, Technological, and Institutional Factors in the Growth of Rice Production: Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan, Food Research Institute Studies 7 (1967): 307-341. Chapter 7: Vernon W. Ruttan, Controversy about Technology: Lessons from the Green Revolution, International Journal of Biotechnology 6 (2004): 43-54. Chapter 8: Yujiro Hayami, Peasant in Economic Modernization, American Journal of Economics 78 (December 1996): 36-53. Chapter 9: Yujiro Hayami, Ecology, History and Development: A Perspective from Rural Southeast Asia, World Bank Research Observer 16 (Fall 2001): 169-198. INDUCED TECHNICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Chapter 10: Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Factor Prices and Technical Change in Development: The United States and Japan, 1880-1960 Journal of Political Economy 78 (September/October 1970): 1115-141. Chapter 11: Vernon W. Ruttan, Social Science Knowledge and Institutional American Journal of Economics 66 (December 1984): 549-559. Chapter 12: Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, Toward a Theory of Induced Institutional innovation, Journal of Development Studies 20 (July 1984): 203-223. V. PERSPECTIVES Chapter 13: Vernon W. Ruttan, Transition to Sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (May 1999): 5960-5967. Chapter 14: Vernon W. Ruttan, New Growth Theory and Development Journal of Development Studies 35 (December 1988): 1-26. Chapter 15: Yujiro Hayami, An Emerging Problem in High-Performing Asian Economies. Presidential Address to the 5th Conference of the Asian Society of Economists, Zahedan, Iran, August 29-31, 2005. Chapter 16: Vernon W. Ruttan, Technical Change, Induced Institutional Change and Mechanism Design. Paper prepared for presentation at the 10th International Workshop on Institutional Economics, Institutions, Technology and Their Roles in Economic Growth, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, June 17-18, 2008 (also published as Staff Paper Series, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota)