The Intensity of Cultivation

B. H. Hibbard

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1922, vol. 36, issue 4, 646-665

Abstract: Question of intensity of culture an old one; never purely objective, 646. — Ability of the entrepreneur the limiting factor, 647. — The problem of intensity of culture stated in one of three ways: entrepreneurship fixed, land fixed, capital fixed, 648. — An experiment may be made with something less than the whole amount of land or capital, 653. — An illustration of the difficulties of the trial method, 654. — Income will be alike for all at the margin, 657. — Intensity varied within a given year, 657. — Social aspect of intensity of culture, 658. — Effect of change of price of product or intensity of culture, 659. — Payment of rent induces intensity of culture, 661. — Effect of changes in wages or capital cost on intensity of culture, 662. — Intensity will vary inversely with these costs, 662.

Date: 1922
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