SHORT- AND LONG-RUN DEMAND AND SUBSTITUTION OF AGRICULTURAL INPUTS

Short- and long-run Hicksian and Marshallian elasticities are estimated, along with Morishima elasticities of substitution, using a restricted profit function and a series of decomposition equations. Convexity in prices and concavity in quasi-fixed factors of the restricted profit function are simultaneously imposed using Bayesian techniques. The empirical model is disaggregated in the input side, utilizes a Fuss-quadratic flexible functional form, incorporates the impact of agricultural policies, and introduces a new weather index. The methodology is applied to Illinois's agriculture, and implications for agriculture in the Corn Belt and the Northeast are briefly discussed.Demand and Price Analysis,

The Divergence of Modern Jurisprudence from the Original Intent for Federalist and Tenth Amendment Limitations on the Treaty Power

[Excerpt] “That the federal treaty-making authority is constrained by the other parts of the Constitution does not sound like the stuff of law journals. It seems like common sense. After all, we would not expect someone to argue that the ability to “regulate Commerce” entitles Congress to disregard the Third Amendment and quarter soldiers in our houses. We would not expect to see an argument that the power to “establish Post Offices” enables Congress to disregard the freedom of the press in the First Amendment. So, why is the Tenth Amendment so fully disregarded with respect to treaties?

A squamous cell carcinoma arising from scrotal epidermal cyst. A case report and review of 94 cases from the world literature

Epidermal cysts are a common benign skin abnormality, comprising 85–90% of all excised skin cysts. The term epidermal inclusion cyst refers specifically when the cyst resulted from the implantation of epidermal elements in the dermis. Squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are common skin lesions; however, a malignant transformation of an epidermal cyst is very rare with incidence of 0.011–0.045%. Few cases of malignant transformation of an epidermal cyst have been reported in the literature so far. This paper presents a case of squamous cell carcinoma arising from a scrotal epidermal cyst

The Commerce Power as a Source of Law: An Interstate Commerce Burden on Environment Law?

One thing that strikes a novice in the study of American Environmental Law is that tbe whole federal legal system that seeks to protect the nation's environment is constitutionally rooted on that same regulatory power- the Commerce Power- that seeks to enhance the nation's economy. 1 The undisputed fact that environmental protection and economic expansion have hardly found advocates inclined to compromising in the political arena brings about an apparent paradox that is deeply felt in the innermost entrails of the American legal system. The Union's authority to protect the environment is recognized only to the extent that the environmental activity to be regulated affects commerce arn.ong States. It appears that while a traditional commonplace is that economic prosperity is inherently environmentally unfriendly, the federal environmental legal system is constitutionally predicted precisely on the opposite assumption- that commerce among States cannot be maintained and enhanced unless the environment is preserved. Indeed, under a broader perspective there is no doubt that the maintenance of the Earth's life supporting natural system is a precondition to the very continuance of human life and, a fortiori, of the general social welfare achievable through the unencumbered practice of commerce. However, under

Neumeier v. Kuehner: Where are the Emperor\u27s Clothes?

Neumeier v. Kuehner is a case of exceptional importance. There is every reason to expect that its impact on choice-of-law decisions throughout this country will be as telling and profound as that of Babcock v. Jackson. Indeed it may turn out that Neumeier will overtake Babcock as the seminal conflicts case. Babcock announced to the world the official demise of the First Restatement and the rejection of rigid, broad-based choice-of-law rules. To replace it the court began charting a policy-centered or interest analysis approach. Neumeier officially heralds the news that the most sophisticated conflicts court in the nation has become somewhat disenchanted with interest analysis. The court chose the occasion of Neumeier to turn its back on pure interest analysis for very good reason. The fact pattern in Neumeier when placed under the scrutiny of interest analysis yielded no rational resolution to the choice-of-law question. In fact, what was worse, it yielded no real interests for the court to evaluate. It was simply an anathema to the court to make the statement that it had before it a simple interstate accident case for which the host-guest policy of neither of the two contact states was relevant. In this instance interest analysis had gone bankrupt. It takes uncommon intellectual honesty to state that the emperor is wearing no clothes. Especially after admiring the fine silk and splendid colors of the fabric, the investment in one\u27s own pronouncements is usually too great for the retraction to be made by its original protagonist. Yet, in Neumeier, Chief Judge Fuld, the author of Babcock, explicitly questioned the very foundations of interest analysis. The reverberations will be felt for a long time to come