Growth in a Traditional Society
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Agricultural productivity
Agricultural revolution
Agriculture
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Arable land
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Calculation
Capital cost
Capital gain
Capital Improvement
Capitalism
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Champart
Comparative advantage
Crop rotation
Demand For Labor
Demographic history
Developed country
Developing country
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic rent
Economics
Economy
Emerging technologies
Employment
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Factor cost
Factors of production
Fisc
Growth Rates
Hectare
Human capital
Income
Invention
Labor demand
Landlord
Livestock
Logarithm
Manure
Market power
Market trend
Moral economy
Opportunity cost
Parlement
Payment
Peasant
Physiocracy
Population growth
Present value
Production function
Productivity
Profit maximization
Prompt payment
Real wages
Result
Seigneur
Sharecropping
Standard of living
Subsistence crisis
Tax
Technological revolution
Tenant farmer
The Ancient Economy
The Great Transformation (book)
Tithe
Total factor productivity
Traditional economy
Urbanization
Useful Life
Working capital
Year
Product details
- ISBN 9780691070087
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 agriculture of ancien-regime France, the author uncovers evidence that requires a new understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies. His arguments rest on a measurement of long-term growth that enables him to analyze the economic, institutional, and political factors that explain its forms and rhythms. In comparing France with England and Germany, Hoffman arrives at fresh answers to some classic questions: Did French agriculture lag behind farming in other countries? If so, did the obstacles in French agriculture lurk within peasant society itself, in the peasants' culture, in their communal property rights, or in the small scale of their farms? Or did the obstacles hide elsewhere, in politics, in the tax system, or in meager opportunities for trade?
The author discovers that growth cannot be explained by culture, property rights, or farm size, and argues that the real causes of growth derived from politics and gains from trade. By challenging other widely held beliefs, such as the nature of the commons and the workings of the rural economy, Hoffman offers a new analysis of peasant society and culture, one based on microeconomics and game theory and intended for a wide range of social scientists.
Philip T. Hoffman is Professor of History and Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500-1789 and, with Kathryn Norberg, Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, 1450-1789.
