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- Title
'A Positive Proposal to Strengthen the Lumber Industry': Rejoinder.
- Authors
Mead, Walter J.
- Abstract
The paper about a positive proposal to strengthen the lumber industry is critiqued. It is argued that the diagnosis of the lumber industry ills does not apply to all regions, states and smaller geographic areas.The criticism is probably correct. Indeed, the introductory paragraph specified that the economic problems which were identified referred to the lumber industry. Unquestionably, there are smaller geographic areas which do not conform to the pattern characteristic of either the nation as a whole or the region cited in particular. First, while there appear to be substantial economies of scale in tree farming and board, pulp and paper, and research, the best data available indicate that lumber manufacturing involves no significant scale economies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOREST products industry; LUMBER industry; WHOLESALE trade; FORESTS &; forestry; LUMBERING; TIMBER; INDUSTRIES
- Publication
Land Economics, 1965, Vol 41, Issue 3, p293
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3144865