 Agricliometrics and Agricultural Change in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesA chapter in Handbook of Cliometrics, 2024, pp 1837-1869 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Before the industrial revolution, agriculture was the most important economic activity of traditional societies. The spread of industrialization processes, first throughout a large part of the western world and later across many more countries, gave rise to an abundance of literature on the role of agriculture in these processes. The initial perspectives offered by economic history, particularly for the British case, and the approaches of development economics specialists, largely based on previous studies by economic historians, became subject to reconsideration when numerous studies emerged that, from a cliometric point of view, sought to evaluate the changes experienced by agriculture and their contribution to economic growth. In this context, the objective of this study is to use these contributions to analyze the profound transformations that have occurred in agriculture around the world over the last two centuries. Keywords: Economic history; Cliometrics; Agricliometrics; Agricultural production; Agricultural productivity; Technological change; Agricultural trade; Globalization; Agricultural policies; Agrarian institutions (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:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35583-7_55 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35583-7_55 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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