 Land Frontier Expansion in Settler Economies, 1830–1950: Was It a Ricardian Process?Henry Willebald and
Javier Juambeltz
Chapter 17 in Agricultural Development in the World Periphery, 2018, pp 439-466 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Settler economies (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay) benefited from the consequences of the Second Industrial Revolution as their temperate climate and fertile soils were suitable for the production of agrarian commodities. The main domestic contribution was the incorporation of “new” land into the economic relationships of the first expansion of the world capitalism. The aim of Chapter 17 is to understand this process in the long term (1830–1950) using the land frontier expansion as a central concept. We present a Ricardian analytical model to explain the process in terms of extensive and intensive margins. Our evidence supports the predominance of the extensive margin in Argentina, Uruguay and New Zealand, and the intensive margin in the first two and Chile, but not in the other countries. Keywords: Settler economies; Land frontier expansion; GIS; Land quality (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-66020-2_17 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66020-2_17 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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