Description

Agricultural Production Economics: The Art of Production Theory is a companion book of color illustrations to Agricultural Production Economics (Second Edition, Amazon Createspace 2012) and is a free download. A bound print copy is also available on amazon.com at a nominal cost under the following ISBN numbers: ISBN- 13: 978-1470129262 ISBN- 10: 1470129264 This is a book of full-color illustrations intended for use as a companion to Agricultural Production Economics, Second Edition. Each of the 98 pages of illustrations is a large, full-color version of the corresponding numbered figure in the book Agricultural Production Economics. The illustrations are each a labor of love by the author representing a combination of science and art. They combine modern computer graphics technologies with the author’s skills as both as a production economist and as a graphics artist. Technologies used in making the illustrations trace the evolution of computer graphics over the past 30 years. Many of the hand-drawn illustrations were initially drawn using the Draw Partner routines from Harvard Graphics®. Wire-grid 3-D illustrations were created using SAS Graph®. Some illustrations combine hand-drawn lines using Draw Partner and the draw features of Microsoft PowerPoint® with computer-generated graphics from SAS®. As a companion text to Agricultural Production Economics, Second Edition, these color figures display the full vibrancy of the modern production theory of economics.