Feeding the world : an economic history of agriculture, 1800-2000 /
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...
Основен автор: | Federico, Giovanni, 1954- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2009, ℗♭2005.
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Серия: |
Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=355986 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Feeding the world. |
Съдържание:
- Why is agriculture different?
- Trends in the long run
- Patterns of growth: the inputs
- The causes of growth: the increase in productivity
- Technical progress in agriculture
- The microeconomics of agricultural institutions
- Agricultural institutions and growth
- The state and the market
- Conclusions: agriculture and economic growth in the long run.