Growth in a Traditional Society

Name: Growth in a Traditional Society | The French Countryside, 1450-1815
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The French Countryside, 1450-1815

Philip T. Hoffman(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 5. Juni 2018

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of 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
Rural Labor Markets
The Rental Market
Credit and Reputation in the Local Economy
CHAPTER FOUR: Agricultural Productivity in France, 1450-1789
Using Leases and Prices to Measure Productivity
Calculating TFP: The Example of the Paris Basin
Productivity Trends Elsewhere in France
Judging French Agricultural Growth
CHAPTER FIVE: Explaining Productivity in a Traditional Economy
Explaining Productivity Growth in the Paris Basin
Assessing the Role of Large Enclosed Farms
Cities, Markets, and the Pattern of TFP Growth
The Transformation of the Countryside: Myth and Reality
CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion
APPENDIX A: The Methods and Sources Used with the Notre Dame Sample
1. Treatment of Leases
2. Distance as a Proxy for the Cost of Transportation to Paris
3. Quality Adjustments and Rent Averages
4. The Comparison with the Veyrassat-Herren and Le Roy Ladurie Rent Series
5. Formulas for TFP and Technical Assumptions
6. Product and Factor Shares and the Rental Price of Agricultural Capital
7. Wages in Paris and the Surrounding Countryside
8. Grain Prices and In-Kind Payments
9. Setting the Rent, Prices in the Indexes ? and C, and Alternative Price Averages
10. Entrepreneurial Profits
11. A Comparison of Our Productivity Index and the Törnqvist-Translog Index
12. Averaging TFP
13. Treatment of Taxes
14. Sources
APPENDIX ?: Measuring TFP with Other Samples of Leases
1. Calculating TFP When Shares Change and Comparing Productivity Levels
2. TFP Calculations, Tax Corrections, and Sources for the Properties Outside of the Paris Basin
Farms in the Orléanais and Near Amiens
Lorraine
Normandy (Bretteville-l' Orgueilleuse, Cheux, Rots, Pays de Caux, Auge)
The West
The Southeast: Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse
Albigeois
Southeastern Languedoc
Salers
Beaujolais
German North Sea Coast
Comparison of the Paris Basin and England
3. Controlling for Property Differences by Measuring Rents Relative to a Common Base Period
APPENDIX C: The Economics of Urban Fertilizer
APPENDIX D: Hedonic Wage Regressions
Note
Sources and Bibliography
Index

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