Technical change in Westphalian peasant agriculture and the rise of the Ruhr, circa 1830-1880

Kopsidis, Michael; Hockmann, Heinrich

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“…Moreover, the pronounced regional growth differences within Westphalia cannot be explained in terms of differences in the fertility of the soil. Rather, the decisive factor was that not all areas were similarly affected by access to the Ruhr (Kopsidis and Hockmann 2010;Kopsidis 2006, pp. 324-362).…”

Section: A Brief Review Of the Literature On Prussiamentioning

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Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Kopsidis¹,

Wolf²

2012

J. Econ. Hist.

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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 line with recent findings on a limited degree of interregional market integration in nineteenth-century Prussia.

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Section: A Brief Review Of the Literature On Prussiamentioning

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Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Kopsidis¹,

Wolf²

2012

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…Specifically, infrastructure development stimulated urban growth (Hornung 2015); hence, the onset of a sustained rise in the urbanization rate from the 1810s is also a characteristic feature of the transition to the post-Malthusian era (Figure 3). Urban growth, in turn, raised spatially concentrated demand for foodstuffs and thus amplified incentives for farmers to expand marketoriented production (Kopsidis and Hockmann 2010;Kopsidis and Wolf 2012;Tilly and Kopsidis 2020, ch. 9).…”

Section: The Post-malthusian Regime 1810s-1870smentioning

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Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850

Pfister

2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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New data are used to construct a time series of real GDP in Germany for the period 1500–1850 using an indirect output estimation technique that relies on wages, prices, and sectoral employment. Until the mid-seventeenth century, real GDP per capita moved inversely with population. The eighteenth century saw a modest rise in output per head. From the late 1810s, economic growth gradually accelerated. The results shed new light on the reversal of fortunes in early modern Europe and the transition from a Malthusian regime to modern economic growth.

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“…Expanding infrastructure and decreasing transport costs extend the area where intensive farming is profitable. Studies on nineteenth-century Northwest Germany have shown that the more extensive a region's land use was before railway construction, the higher were the agricultural productivity gains resulting from new, more productive and more intensive farming systems (Kopsidis and Hockmann 2010). 13 This does not necessarily imply that before market integration, absolute yields were lower in Southern grain belts compared to Central regions.…”

Section: All Landmentioning

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Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

Kopsidis¹,

Bruisch²,

Bromley³

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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This contribution deals with agricultural dynamics in late-Imperial Russia. Based upon a comprehensive micro-level data set on annual yields between 1883 and 1913, we provide insight into regional differences of agricultural growth and the development prospects of Russian agriculture before WWI. Making use of the fact that contemporary Russian statistics distinguished between mostly communally governed open fields and privately owned land, we are able to test the implications of different land tenure systems for agricultural yield growth. In a broader sense, we seek to challenge the common narrative of Russia as an exception to the pan-European picture of economic development during the era of industrialization.

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Technical change in Westphalian peasant agriculture and the rise of the Ruhr, circa 1830-1880

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850

Where is the backward Russian peasant? Evidence against the superiority of private farming, 1883–1913

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