College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Professor Brake was at MSU from 1959 to 1981, working in agricultural finance. He had primarily teaching and research appointments. 

He left MSU in 1981 and accepted an appointment at Cornell University in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as the first full-time, W. I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1996. 

Students

Student Mentoring

• List of MSU advisees and respective theses/dissertations topics

Teaching Experience

• Professor Brake taught undergraduate and graduate agricultural finance courses for many years at MSU and at Cornell (under construction)

Pubs Online

Publication Listings (with many downloadable)

• View Brake Publications at Google Scholar (under construction)
• Selected  publications, many downloadable:
• MSU Library
• AgEcon Search
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) Cornell University Library  
• Books World Cat
• HathiTrust Digital Library