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Agricultural growth and institutions: Sweden 1700-1860

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The dating and explanation of the agricultural revolution in Europe remains an elusive research task. When and why did a low-productive pre-industrial agricultural sector turn into a fast-growing, more productive one? Unique data from Sweden, consisting of more than 80,000 observations of farm production output for the period 1700–1860, is used to calculate and explain decisive changes in pre-industrial agricultural production. Our estimations show that crop production more than quadrupled during the period studied and from the 1780s and onwards production growth by far outstripped population growth. Furthermore, the data allows us to estimate the determinants of change on individual farm level. The results show that enclosures, markets and property rights were of significant importance. Institutional changes, affecting the incentives and the organisation of production, made peasants invest in production and productivity. In a general sense this shows the flexibility and awareness of pre-industrial European peasants in exploiting markets and initiating institutional change.

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

275-304

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Review of Economic History

Volym

14

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • nineteenth century
  • Sweden
  • institutions
  • agriculture
  • growth
  • eighteenth century

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1474-0044