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Role of Agriculture in Economic Development.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kjeldsen-Kragh, Søren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • I General economic trends
  • 1. Economic development in the modern era
  • 1.1 The modern era started around 1750
  • 1.2 The data available for comparison
  • 1.3 Population growth from 1500 to 2000
  • 1.4 Economic development from 1500 to 1820
  • 1.5 Economic development from 1820 to 2000
  • 1.6 Industrialisation
  • 1.7 Different economic conditions in Western Europe and the USA in different periods
  • 1.8 The business cycle
  • 1.9 Factors influencing economic development
  • 1.10 Summary2. Integration and trade
  • 2.1 New ideas in a world with little integration 1750-1815
  • 2.2 The increase in international trade 1815-2000
  • 2.3 Increasing integration and liberalisation 1815-1875
  • 2.4 Increasing integration and tariff protection 1875-1914
  • 2.5 A turbulent period of disintegration 1914-1945
  • 2.6 The revival of integration 1945-2000
  • 2.7 Summary
  • II Agricultural development
  • 3. Employment, productivity and prices in agriculture
  • 3.1 The relative decline of agriculture
  • 3.2 Production resources in agriculture
  • 3.3 Productivity in agriculture3.4 Productivity differs between countries
  • 3.5 Demand for agricultural products
  • 3.6 Agricultural prices in the short term
  • 3.7 Agricultural prices in the medium term
  • 3.8 Agricultural prices in the long term
  • 3.9 Real agricultural prices
  • 3.10 Summary
  • 4. Technological and institutional changes in agriculture 1750-1914
  • 4.1 What are technological and institutional changes?
  • 4.2 An overview of industrial and agricultural changes
  • 4.3 The farming system in Europe before the agricultural revolution
  • 4.4 The first technological changes4.5 Institutional changes in the form of agricultural reforms
  • 4.6 Technological changes continued
  • 4.7 Institutional change in the form of economic integration
  • 4.8 The importance of markets
  • 4.9 Summary
  • 5. Agricultural reforms in Europe 1750-1914
  • 5.1 The feudal system was not the same everywhere
  • 5.2 Britain
  • 5.3 France
  • 5.4 Germany
  • 5.5 Denmark
  • 5.6 Mediterranean countries
  • 5.7 Austria-Hungary and the Balkans
  • 5.8 Russia
  • 5.9 Summary
  • 6. Trade policy and agricultural performance in different countries 1815-19146.1 Britain
  • 6.2 France
  • 6.3 Germany
  • 6.4 Denmark
  • 6.5 The USA
  • 6.6 Summary
  • 7. Agricultural markets and public intervention 1914 â€? 1945
  • 7.1 The First World War and the restoration of peace 1914-1929
  • 7.2 The introduction of agricultural support policies in Europe 1929-1939
  • 7.3 The Great Depression and agricultural policy in the USA 1929-1939
  • 7.4 Lack of international co-operation
  • 7.5 How did agriculture perform?