Selected publications:
Comparative Technology Choice in Development: The Indian and Japanese Cotton Textile Industries.
London: Macmillan Press, 1988 (with Gustav Ranis and Gary Saxonhouse).
The Economics of Contract Choice: An Agrarian Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993 (with Yujiro Hayami).
Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asia.
Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner, 1994 (edited with Cristina C. David).
Industrial Reform in China: Past Performance and Future Prospects.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 (with Deqiang Liu and Naoki Murakami). [Translated into Chinese and published by
the Shanghai United Press and People's Press of Shanghai in 2000].
Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management: A Comparative Study of Agrarian Communities in Asia and Africa.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 (edited with Frank Place).
Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth across Generations. Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (with Agnes R. Quisumbing and Jonna P. Estudillo).
Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model. Hampshire,
UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (with Tetsushi Sonobe).
Contributions ofAgricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues,
Proceedings of 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007 (edited with Kaliappa Kalirajan).
Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues.
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2008 (edited with Kaliappa Kalirajan).
The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Assessing the Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency.
Baltimore, MD: Resources for the Future, 2009 (edited with Stein T. Holden and Frank Place).
Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa. London, UK: Routledge, 2009
(edited with Jonna P. Estudillo and Yasuyuki Sawada).
Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (with Tetsushi Sonobe).
Community, Market, and State in Development: In Honor of Professor Yujiro Hayami. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (edited with Kaliappa Kalirajan).
Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa: Markets, Soil, and Innovations. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer, forthcoming in 2011 (edited with Takashi Yamano and Frank Place).
Can Economic Growth Be Sustained? The Collected Papers of Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011 (edited with C. Ford Runge).
Miraculous Growth and Stagnation: Lessons from the Experience of Postwar Japanese Economic Development. London, UK: Routledge, forthcoming in 2011 (edited with Koichi Hamada, Gustav Ranis, and Ken Togo).
Strategy for a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Unpublished manuscript: World Bank (edited with Donald Larson).
“Induced Bias of Technical Change in Agriculture: The United States and Japan, 1880-1980.”
Journal of Political Economy 94 (3), June 1986, pp. 523-44 (with Toshihiko Kawagoe and Yujiro Hayami).
“Land and Labor Contracts in Agrarian Economies: Theories and Facts.”
Journal of Economic Literature 30 (4), December 1992, pp. 1965-2018 (with Hiroyuki Chuma and Yujiro Hayami).
“Population, Land Tenure, and Natural Resource Management: The Case of Customary Land Areas in Malawi.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 41 (1), January 2001, pp. 13-32 (with Frank Place).
“The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises: The Case of Garment Producers in Kenya.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 54 (4), July 2006, pp. 927-44 (with John E. Akoten and Yasuyuki Sawada).
“An Inquiry into the Transformation Process of Village-based Industrial Clusters: The Case of an Iron and Steel Cluster in Northern Vietnam,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 37(4), December 2009, pp. 568-81 (with Vu Hoang Nam and Tetsushi Sonobe).
