Not scarcity of food, but of funding for research has inspired Alston (agricultural and resource economics, U. of California-Davis), George W. Norton (agricultural and applied economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) and Philip G. Pardey (applied economics, U. of Minnesota) to explain to research analysts and administrators some economics methods for evaluating and prioritizing research. They apply to agricultural research such tools as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques, mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models. The cloth edition was published by Cornell University Press in 1995. This edition is distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)