Faculty and students in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics study the production, distribution, and consumption of food, fiber, and energy in both well-developed and less-developed countries. To address these issues, the department emphasizes the development and application of rigorous economic theory and quantitative methods. Researchers strive to understand and improve government policy, market performance, environmental quality, the efficiency of natural resource use, and economic welfare. The department offers the popular Managerial Economics undergraduate major and top-rated Ph.D. and Masters programs in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Quirino Paris: 2011 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Fellow
Quirino Paris, professor, is among the very rare economists who embrace econometric and mathematical programming approaches to conduct applied research. He was among the first researchers to recognize and take full advantage of the primal-dual approach to modeling choice in both production and consumer theories.
Paris is well known for his revival of von Liebig's law of the minimum, a conjecture about limiting nutrients as determinants of crop productivity.
He is also a Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists.