1st Edition
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure
By Ester Boserup
Copyright 2005
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
137 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results. It starts on firm ground rather than from abstract economic theory. Upon its initial appearance, it was heralded as "a small masterpiece, which economic historians should read--and not simply quote"--Giovanni Frederico, Economic History Services. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth remains... Read more
INTRODUCTION, 1. THE DYNAMICS OF LAND UTILIZATION, 2. THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF LAND USE AND TECHNICAL CHANGE, 3. LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY UNDER LONG-FALLOW AND SHORT-FALLOW SYSTEMS, 4. CARRYING CAPACITY OF LAND AND PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR UNDER INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE, 5. POPULATION GROWTH AND WORKING HOURS, 6. THE CO-EXISTENCE OF CULTIVATION SYSTEMS, 7. DIMINISHING RETURNS TO LABOUR AND TECHNICAL INERTIA, 8. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF SPARSE POPULATION AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES, 9. SYSTEMS OF LAND USE AS A DETERMINANT OF LAND TENURE, 10. INVESTMENT AND TENURE IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, 11. RURAL INVESTMENT UNDER LANDLORD TENURE, 12. INCENTIVES TO INVESTMENT UNDER MODERN TENURE, 13. THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL INPUT IN PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE, 14. SOME PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS, INDEX
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Ester Boserup
