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Feeding the World : An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000 / Giovanni Federico.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 34Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 4 line illus. 65 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691138534
  • 9781400837724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.109034 22
LOC classification:
  • HD1411 .F43 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations/ List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Why Is Agriculture Different? -- Chapter Three. Trends in the Long Run -- Chapter Four. Patterns of Growth: The Inputs -- Chapter Five. The Causes of Growth: The Increase in Productivity -- Chapter Six. Technical Progress in Agriculture -- Chapter Seven. The Microeconomics of Agricultural Institutions -- Chapter Eight. Agricultural Institutions and Growth -- Chapter Nine. The State and the Market -- Chapter Ten. Conclusions: Agriculture and Economic Growth in the Long Run -- Statistical Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations/ List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Why Is Agriculture Different? -- Chapter Three. Trends in the Long Run -- Chapter Four. Patterns of Growth: The Inputs -- Chapter Five. The Causes of Growth: The Increase in Productivity -- Chapter Six. Technical Progress in Agriculture -- Chapter Seven. The Microeconomics of Agricultural Institutions -- Chapter Eight. Agricultural Institutions and Growth -- Chapter Nine. The State and the Market -- Chapter Ten. Conclusions: Agriculture and Economic Growth in the Long Run -- Statistical Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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