Forestry and the New Institutional Economics : An Application of Contract Theory to Forest Silvicultural Investment (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Property rights, institutions and market failure; Market failure and forestry; Contracts, information and transaction costs; Organizations, regulation and policy instruments; The silvicultural contracting sector; Contracting out or in-house delivery?; How to hire and pay silvicultural workers?; Silvicultural investment and institutional restructuring; References; Index.