Growth in a Traditional Society : : The French Countryside, 1450-1815 / / Philip T. Hoffman.
Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political revolution for their growth. Through a richly detailed historical investigation of the peasant agricultu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER One. Peasants, Historians, and Economic Growth
- CHAPTER Two. Common Rights and the Village Community
- CHAPTER Three. Labor Markets, Rental Markets, and Credit in the Local Economy
- CHAPTER Four. Agricultural Productivity in France, 1450-1789
- CHAPTER Five. Explaining Productivity in a Traditional Economy
- CHAPTER Six. Conclusion
- APPENDIX A The Methods and Sources Used with the Notre Dame Sample
- APPENDIX Β Measuring TFP with Other Samples of Leases
- APPENDIX C The Economics of Urban Fertilizer
- APPENDIX D Hedonic Wage Regressions
- Notes
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index