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License to Till: The Privileges of the Spanish Mesta as a Case of Second Best Institutions

Drelichman, Mauricio - Vancouver School of Economics - 2006

The Mesta was the association of the migratory shepherds of Castile, controlling fine wool production between the … agricultural productivity during the Early Modern period. I argue that the Mesta's privileges allowed Medieval Castile to develop … prices and a detailed analysis of lawsuits involving the Mesta. …

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Output Risk in Tuscan Agriculture in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

Galassi, F.L.; Pudney, S. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1999

We analyze output risk in Italian agriculture over the period 1870-1914. We use data on a set of 16 tenanted plots grouped into three farms comprising a single large estate. We estimate the degree of risk associated with each separate crop, with the portfolio of crops at the level of the plot,...

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Explaining vineyard specialization in the province of Barcelona (Spain) in the mid-19th century

Tello, Enric; Badia-Miro, Marc; Cusso, Xavier; … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

We present a statistical model of agrarian vineyard specialization in the province of Barcelona towards 1860, that combines the Boserupian push of population increase, the demand pull of a Smithian-type of growth (measured by the time-distances to the nearest seaport), and the agrological lands...

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Las instituciones horizontales de gestión colectiva del riego. El fracaso del Sindicato General de Riegos del Turia (1850-1883)

Sanchis Ibor, Carles - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2013

The Spanish collective institutions for irrigation management have become a reiterated reference in the study of common pool resources. However, the success of Spanish irrigators in the local management of water contrasts with an important failure in the management of this common pool resource...

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Thy neighbour’s property. Communal property rights and institutional change in an iron producing forest district of Sweden 1630-1750

Granér, Staffan - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2005

This paper focuses on the development of property rights to village com-mons, as they appear in the court rolls of a legal district in Sweden in the late 17th and the early 18th century. A development of agrarian property rights, from comparably attenuated towards more exclusive and private...

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Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Libecap, Gary D.; Lueck, Dean; O'Grady, Trevor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...

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Capitalising on the Irish Land Question:Land Reform and State Banking in Ireland, 1891-1938

Foley-Fisher, Nathan; McLaughlin, Eoin - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2015

Land reform and its financial arrangements are central elements of modern Irish history. Yet to date, the financial mechanisms underpinning Irish land reform have been overlooked. The paper outlines the mechanisms of land reform in Ireland and the importance of land bonds to the process. The...

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Land Confiscations and land reform in Natural-Order States

Croix, Sumner La - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2014

Social scientists argue that post-World War II land reforms in East Asia were critical ingredients in the regionâ€™s strong economic growth, but pay little attention to how large-scale land confiscations might affect the security of property rights in each country. A review of the history...

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Where is the Backward Peasant? Regional Crop Yields on Common and Private Land in Russia 1883-1913

Kopsidis, Michael; Bruisch, Katja; Bromley, Daniel W. - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2013

This paper 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...

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How substitutable are fixed factors in production? evidence from pre-industrial England

Wilde, Joshua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Whether fixed factors such as land constrain per-capita income growth depends crucially on two variables: the substitutability of fixed factors in production, and the extent to which innovation is biased towards land-saving technologies. This paper attempts to quantify both. Using the timing of...

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