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Ian R. Wills

Ian R. Wills Ian Wills grew up on a sheep and grain farm at Lake Bolac in western Victoria. He studied agricultural science at the University of Melbourne, graduating BAgrSci in 1962. He returned briefly to the farm, but a combination of push and pull factors (footrot and the encouragement of the late Alan Lloyd), saw him return to the university to complete his MAgrSci at Melbourne in 1966, and his PhD at the University of Illinois. His doctoral studies in the United States included 6 months at the University of Chicago under T.W. Schultz, which lead to his doctoral topic, a study of the impacts of Green Revolution technologies on Indian farming. After teaching in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Ian returned to Australia in 1972. From then until his retirement at the end of 2006, he was based in the Economics Department at Monash University, where he taught and researched in environmental economics, agricultural economics and development economics. Ian has written many articles, conference papers and consultancy reports in the overlapping areas of agricultural economics, development economics and environmental economics. He has also written two editions of the highly regarded textbook Economics and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1364-985X
eISSN
1467-8489
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8489.2009.00461.x
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Abstract

Ian Wills grew up on a sheep and grain farm at Lake Bolac in western Victoria. He studied agricultural science at the University of Melbourne, graduating BAgrSci in 1962. He returned briefly to the farm, but a combination of push and pull factors (footrot and the encouragement of the late Alan Lloyd), saw him return to the university to complete his MAgrSci at Melbourne in 1966, and his PhD at the University of Illinois. His doctoral studies in the United States included 6 months at the University of Chicago under T.W. Schultz, which lead to his doctoral topic, a study of the impacts of Green Revolution technologies on Indian farming. After teaching in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Ian returned to Australia in 1972. From then until his retirement at the end of 2006, he was based in the Economics Department at Monash University, where he taught and researched in environmental economics, agricultural economics and development economics. Ian has written many articles, conference papers and consultancy reports in the overlapping areas of agricultural economics, development economics and environmental economics. He has also written two editions of the highly regarded textbook Economics and the

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The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource EconomicsWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2009

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