Feeding the world : an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000
著者
書誌事項
Feeding the world : an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000
（The Princeton economic history of the Western world）
Princeton University Press, c2005
- : cloth
大学図書館所蔵 全19件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-380) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
List of Illustrations ix List of Tables ix Preface xiii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Why Is Agriculture Different? 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 Agriculture and the Environment: An Uneasy Relationship 5 2.3 Factor Endowment and the Characteristics of Agriculture 13 Chapter Three: Trends in the Long Run 16 3.1 Introduction 16 3.2 Output 16 3.3 Prices 21 3.4 The Composition of Agricultural Output 26 3.5 Trade 28 Chapter Four: Patterns of Growth: The Inputs 31 4.1 Introduction 31 4.2 Land 31 4.3 Capital 40 4.4 Labor 56 4.5 Conclusion: Factor Endowment and Factor Prices in the Long Run 64 Chapter Five: The Causes of Growth: The Increase in Productivity 69 5.1 Introduction 69 5.2 The Productivity of Land and Labor 70 5.3 The Total Factor Productivity 74 5.4 Conclusion: On the Interpretation of Total Factor Productivity Growth 82 Chapter Six: Technical Progress in Agriculture 83 6.1 Introduction: Productivity Growth and Technical Progress 83 6.2 The Major Innovations 84 6.3 The Macroeconomics of Innovations: Factor Prices and Technical Progress 93 6.4 The Microeconomics of Agricultural Innovation: Appropriability, Complementarity, Environment, and Risk 101 6.5 The Microeconomics of Agricultural Innovation: Research Institutions and Technical Progress 105 6.6 Conclusion: On the Causes of Technical Progress 114 Chapter Seven: The Microeconomics of Agricultural Institutions 117 7.1 Introduction: What Are the Institutions, and Why Should We Care about Them? 117 7.2 Property Rights 118 7.3 The "Structure": Matching Land and Labor 121 7.4 Finding the Money: Formal and Informal Credit 128 7.5 The Co-operative: The Best of All Possible Worlds? 133 7.6 Conclusion: Is There an "Ideal" Farm? 136 Chapter Eight: Agricultural Institutions and Growth 143 8.1 Introduction 143 8.2 Prelude: The Establishing of Modern Property Rights 144 8.3 Meddling with Property Rights: Land Reform and Other Structural Interventions 149 8.4 The "Structural" Change in the Long Run 152 8.5 The Development of Markets 160 8.6 Self-help: The Growth of the Co-operative Movement 168 8.7 Institutions and Agricultural Growth: The Creation of Property Rights and "Structural" Interventions 172 8.8 Institutions and Agricultural Growth: Landownership, Farm Size, and Contracts 177 8.9 Institutions and Agricultural Growth: The Development of Markets 181 8.10 Conclusion: Did Institutions Really Matter? 186 Chapter Nine: The State and the Market 187 9.1 Introduction: On the Design of Agricultural Policies 187 9.2 Before 1914: The Era of Laissez Faire 189 9.3 The Interwar Years: The Great Discontinuity 191 9.4 The OECD Countries after 1945: The Era of Surpluses 196 9.5 The Less Developed Countries after Independence: The Green Revolution and the "Development" Policies 201 9.6 The Socialist Countries 205 9.7 On the Effects of Agricultural Policies 211 9.8 Conclusion: The Political Economy of Agricultural Policies 215 Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Agriculture and Economic Growth in the Long Run 221 10.1 Fifteen Stylized Facts 221 10.2 Agriculture and Economic Growth: Some Theory 222 10.3 Agriculture and Economic Growth: Debates and Historical Evidence 226 10.4 Concluding Remarks: A Look to the Future 231 Statistical Appendix 233 Notes 251 Bibliography 325 Index 381
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