Storage and English Government Intervention in Early Modern Grain Markets

Randall Nielsen

The Journal of Economic History, 1997, vol. 57, issue 1, 1-33

Abstract: In 1587 the English Privy Council issued its first Book of Orders for the relief of dearth, a program of grain-market control that included forced delivery of private stocks to local markets in crisis periods. The policy has been described as an effective response to irrational hoarding and credited for a significant reduction in English grain-price variance. In contrast, I find support for an alternative profit maximizing model of storage. The occurrence of similar price stabilization in other European markets in the early seventeenth century is also demonstrated, suggesting English policy was not the cause.

Date: 1997
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