Feeding the world:an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000
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Princeton University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Princeton |
Publication Dates: | c2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
The Princeton economic history of the Western world |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 388 p.: ill., map ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
069112051X (cl. : alk. paper) 9780691120515 (cl. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | F319 |
CLC: | F319 |
Call Number: | F319/F293 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-380) and index. Why is agriculture different? -- Trends in the long run -- Patterns of growth: the inputs -- The causes of growth: the increase in productivity -- Technical progress in agriculture -- The microeconomics of agricultural institutions -- Agricultural institutions and growth -- The state and the market -- Agriculture and economic growth in the long run. |