The Small Business Administration (2009) reported the small business sector employs approximately half of U.S. workers and creates 60–80% of all new jobs. The U.S. workforce is now comprised of four different generational cohort groups, each group with its own history, value-shaping experiences, and motivational patterns....

After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious. Many competing risk models have been proposed. Some new methodologies are largely untested....

This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors\' award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation....