Industrial engineers in the food-processing industry have developed the Halyard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system as a preventive approach to ensuring the safety of meat and poultry products. This paper discusses both the origins of HACCP as an engineering concept and the economics of HACCP as a regulatory tool. The authors contend that the economics literature has not adequately e...

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Sheila A. Martin is a senior economist in the Research Triangle Institute’s Center for Economics Research. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University in 1992 and holds an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Kentucky. At the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, she researched industrial and rural development policy issues, including industryand plant-le...

a Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Sillim-Dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-742, South Korea b Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), 66, Hoegiro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea c Center for Transportation Research, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Sta...

This paper briefly reviews key insights from natural resource and environmental economics, ecological economics and industrial ecology in an effort to identify the major contributions of these fields to the understanding and promotion of sustainable development. Each is based on overlapping worldviews, methods and tools. Their synthesis and extension– subsumed under the rubric of dNatural Econo...