Bruce Beattie joined the faculty in 1990. He has held faculty positions at the University of Kentucky, Iowa State, Texas A&M, and Montana State University. Teaching interests include production economics and principles of microeconomics.

Beattie has received research publication awards from the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA), and he was a co-recipient of the WAEA Extension Program Award in 1989. He is a Past-President of the AAEA, the WAEA, and the National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators. Beattie is a former Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, was one of 100 selected for Montana State University's Society of the Centennial Alumni in 1993, and was named a Fellow of the AAEA in 1997.

Selected Publications

Beattie, Bruce R. (2006). On Doing More with Less and Other Messages for University Administrators: Collected Papers of a Former Insider. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson. 104 pp.

Beattie, Bruce R. and J.T. LaFrance. (2006). “The Law of Demand Versus Diminishing Marginal Utility.” Review of Agricultural Economics 28(2):263–271.

Beattie, Bruce R., J.R. Mortensen, and L. Knudsen. (December 2004). “Det fleksible trediegradspolynomium og produktionsfunktioner med plateau.” Tidsskrift for Landøkonomi 191(4):55–64. (English translation available at http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/pubs/researchpapers.html)

Beattie, Bruce R. (Fall 2004). “Uses and Abuses of Economic Multipliers: A Reprise.” Arizona Review 2(2):6–7, 13. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Mortensen, Jorgen R. and B.R. Beattie. “Does Choice of Response Function Matter in Setting Maximum Allowable N-Application Rates in Danish Agriculture?” Journal of Agricultural Economics 190(December 2003):338–350. (English translation of original Danish available from beattie@u.arizona.edu)

Beattie, Bruce R. “Doing More with Less: A Doubtful Proposition.” Arizona Review 1(Fall 2003):3–6.

Beattie, Bruce R., M. T. Holt, and M. J. Watts. "On the Function Coefficient, Euler's Theorem, and Homogeneity in Production Theory." Review of Agricultural Economics 24(Spring/Summer 2002):240–249.

Beattie, Bruce R. "The 'Disappearance' of Agricultural Land: Fact or Fiction?" In Agriculture and the Environment: Searching for Greener Pastures, T. L. Anderson and B. Yandle, eds. Stanford: Hoover Press, 2001.

Beattie, Bruce R. and D. R. Biggestaff. "Karnal Bunt: A Wimp of a Disease...But an Irresistible Political Opportunity." Choices 14(Second Quarter, 1999):4-8.

Beattie, Bruce R. and Robert Innes. "Federal Funding of Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension in the Land Grant Universities: An Economic Perspective." Choices 12(Fourth Quarter, 1997):8-12.

Beattie, Bruce R. "Bureaucratic Behavior and Rent Seeking in the Ivory Tower (Including Agricultural Economics)." Benjamin H. Hibbard Memorial Lecture Series, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 1995.

Beattie, Bruce R. and C. Robert Taylor. The Economics of Production, Reprint Edition. Malabou, FL: Krieger Publishing Co., 1993.

Beattie, Bruce R. "Some Almost-Ideal Remedies for Healing Land Grant Universities." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(December 1991):1307-1321.

Frank, M. D., B. R. Beattie, and M. E. Embleton. "A Comparison of Alternative Production Function Models." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(August 1990):597-603.

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