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  title info:
    title: Research in economic history
    part number: Vol. 22
  name:
    name part: Field, Alexander J.
  name:
    name part: Clark, Gregory
    name part: 1957-
  name:
    name part: Sundstrom, William Andrew.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley, U.K
    publisher: Emerald
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 325 p.).
  abstract: Volume 22 of Research in Economic History contains six papers. Three are on agriculture and two on macro issues related to the Great Depression. A concluding paper examines trends in interstate migration in the United States. Fred Pryor begins the volume with a provocative exploration of the degree to which the Neolithic revolution was in fact revolutionary. Pryor argues for a considerably lesser break with the past than has been commonly asserted. He maintains, in particular, that hunter-gatherer methods of procuring subsistence persisted alongside a continuum of agricultural practices. His evidence is drawn largely from records of surviving hunter-gatherer societies. Moving forward 10 millennia, Gregory Clark provides details of his construction of an annual price series for English net agricultural output from 1209 to 1914. Clark incorporates fresh archival material with existing published series, using consistent methods to build and aggregate 26 component series.In the third paper on farming, Giovanni Federico estimates world agricultural production from 1800 to 1938. He concludes that output grew more rapidly than population, and did so on all continents, although more rapidly in countries of Western settlement and in Eastern Europe than in Asia or in Western Europe. Federico also finds that output grew faster before World War One than in the inter-war years, and resulted over time in an increase in the share of livestock products. Continuing into the twentieth century, we have two papers on the Great Depression. First, Barry Eichengreen and Kris Mitchener explore the degree to which the seeds of economic downturn were sown during the 1920s, particularly through excessive credit creation. The authors develop quantitative measures of credit expansion and ask how well these indicators account for unevenness in the twenties expansion as well as the depth and severity of the depression in individual countries.They complement this macro analysis with sectoral studi…
  table of contents: Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- From foraging to farming : the so-called "neolithic revolution" / Frederic L. Pryor -- The growth of world agricultural production, 1800-1938 / Giovanni Federico -- The Great Depression as a credit boom gone wrong / Barry Eichengreen, Kris J. Mitchener -- The length and the depth of the Great Depression : an international comparison / Jakob B. Madsen -- The decline and rise of interstate migration in the United States : evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990 / Joshua L Rosenbloom, William A Sundstrom -- The price history of English agriculture, 1209-1914 / Gregory Clark.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  classification: HC28 .R47 2004
  classification: 330.0723
  classification: 330.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research in economic history
  identifier: 9781849502825 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0363-3268/22
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    record creation date: 101115
    record change date: 20101115152719.0
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