Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1789

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Hoffman, Philip T.
Date:	1991
Agency:	Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Series:	Social Science Working Paper, no. 752
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5755
Sector:	History Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	agriculture land tenure and use productivity economic growth
Abstract:	"Using evidence from a sample of over 800 leases, this paper examines the productivity of farming in the Paris Basin between 1450 and 1789. Existing evidence about productivity is unreliable, the paper argues, and the leases provide historians with a new and valuable source for the study of productivity and economic growth. Much of the paper is devoted to a defense of the method employed with the leases, which point to spurts of spectacular growth on local farms but also to stunning setbacks during times of war and increased taxation. The paper concludes with analysis of the causes of economic growth in pre-industrial agriculture."

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