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1 online resource (412 pages) |
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The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I General economic trends -- 1. Economic development in the modern era -- 1.1 The modern era started around 1750 -- 1.2 The data available for comparison -- 1.3 Population growth from 1500 to 2000 -- 1.4 Economic development from 1500 to 1820 -- 1.5 Economic development from 1820 to 2000 -- 1.6 Industrialisation -- 1.7 Different economic conditions in Western Europe and the USA in different periods -- 1.8 The business cycle -- 1.9 Factors influencing economic development |
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1.10 Summary2. Integration and trade -- 2.1 New ideas in a world with little integration 1750-1815 -- 2.2 The increase in international trade 1815-2000 -- 2.3 Increasing integration and liberalisation 1815-1875 -- 2.4 Increasing integration and tariff protection 1875-1914 -- 2.5 A turbulent period of disintegration 1914-1945 -- 2.6 The revival of integration 1945-2000 -- 2.7 Summary -- II Agricultural development -- 3. Employment, productivity and prices in agriculture -- 3.1 The relative decline of agriculture -- 3.2 Production resources in agriculture |
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3.3 Productivity in agriculture3.4 Productivity differs between countries -- 3.5 Demand for agricultural products -- 3.6 Agricultural prices in the short term -- 3.7 Agricultural prices in the medium term -- 3.8 Agricultural prices in the long term -- 3.9 Real agricultural prices -- 3.10 Summary -- 4. Technological and institutional changes in agriculture 1750-1914 -- 4.1 What are technological and institutional changes? -- 4.2 An overview of industrial and agricultural changes -- 4.3 The farming system in Europe before the agricultural revolution |
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4.4 The first technological changes4.5 Institutional changes in the form of agricultural reforms -- 4.6 Technological changes continued -- 4.7 Institutional change in the form of economic integration -- 4.8 The importance of markets -- 4.9 Summary -- 5. Agricultural reforms in Europe 1750-1914 -- 5.1 The feudal system was not the same everywhere -- 5.2 Britain -- 5.3 France -- 5.4 Germany -- 5.5 Denmark -- 5.6 Mediterranean countries -- 5.7 Austria-Hungary and the Balkans -- 5.8 Russia -- 5.9 Summary |
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6. Trade policy and agricultural performance in different countries 1815-19146.1 Britain -- 6.2 France -- 6.3 Germany -- 6.4 Denmark -- 6.5 The USA -- 6.6 Summary -- 7. Agricultural markets and public intervention 1914 � 1945 -- 7.1 The First World War and the restoration of peace 1914-1929 -- 7.2 The introduction of agricultural support policies in Europe 1929-1939 -- 7.3 The Great Depression and agricultural policy in the USA 1929-1939 -- 7.4 Lack of international co-operation -- 7.5 How did agriculture perform? |
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""7.6 Agriculture in the Soviet Union 1917-1939"" |
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Print version record |
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Land use, Rural -- History -- 20th century
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Land use, Rural
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788763099851 |
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8763099853 |
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