2012
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050712000320
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Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Abstract: This article explores the pattern of land rents and agricultural productivity across nineteenth-century Prussia to gain new insights on the causes of the “Little Divergence” between European regions. We argue that agriculture reacted to urban and industrial development rather than shaping it. In the spirit of Johann von Thünen and Ernst Engel, we develop a theoretical model to test how access to urban demand affected agricultural development. We show that the effect of urban demand is causal and that it is in … Show more

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“…The Stolypin reform went along with measures to improve access to credit, input and outlet markets through cooperatives, and to enhance the provision of agronomic aid (Macey 1998;Gerasimov 2009). Considering that institutional change played a minor role even in Prussia (Kopsidis and Wolf 2012), whose famous agrarian reforms served as a model for late-Imperial Russian policy makers, we suggest that the state-driven attempt to establish a private farming system had less effect on yield growth and agricultural development in Imperial Russia than 'liberal ownership' theory would predict.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…The Stolypin reform went along with measures to improve access to credit, input and outlet markets through cooperatives, and to enhance the provision of agronomic aid (Macey 1998;Gerasimov 2009). Considering that institutional change played a minor role even in Prussia (Kopsidis and Wolf 2012), whose famous agrarian reforms served as a model for late-Imperial Russian policy makers, we suggest that the state-driven attempt to establish a private farming system had less effect on yield growth and agricultural development in Imperial Russia than 'liberal ownership' theory would predict.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…18 The variable for land rent is based on the Grundsteuerreinertrag defined as the income from agrarian use of land less the costs of farming (Kopsidis and Wolf, 2012). Crop yields refer to yields of wheat and rye.…”
Section: Land Inequality Education and Marriagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The argument of a (urban)-demand-driven agricultural development, which stressed the role of the cities' growth in agricultural progress, has been used by several other scholars to explain why Northwestern Europe was the world's most productive region in agriculture until 1800 (see e.g. de Vries, 1974;Boserup, 1981;Wrigley, 1987Wrigley, , 1988Grantham 1989Grantham , 1999Kussmaul, 1990;Hoffman, 1996;van Zanden, 1999;Allen, 1998Allen, , 2000Allen, and 2008bWeisdorf, 2006;Campbell, 2010) (Kopsidis and Wolf, 2012).…”
Section: C) Agricultural Progressmentioning
confidence: 99%