Citation:

Chapter 18. Economic principles of pest management. Pages 484-498. In: Insect-Pest Management and Control. Principles of Plant and Animal Pest Control. Washington DC, National Academy of Sciences (United States). Volume 3. Publication 1695, Third Printing, 508 pages.

Keywords: Economic research on insect-pest management, economics of insect control on the farm, input-output relationships, costs and returns, risk and uncertainty, sources of data for economic analysis, test plots, case studies, surveys, data needs, analytical techniques, tabular analysis, game theory, production function analysis, budgeting and programming, aggregative economic impacts of insect-control systems, impactof government activities on use of insect control systems