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¿Por qué se estancó la cabaña trashumante castellana en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII? Una interpretación
Romero, Emilio Pérez - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 01 (2005), pp. 15-44
these events gave rise to the Mesta and the Castilian transhumance crisis. … flocks during the eighteenth century. These sources allow concluding that the number of livestock increased during the first … article studies the conflict arising from access to these pasture lands, the ways the land were redistributed and how all …
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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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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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Was land reform necessary? Access to land in Spain, 1860 to 1931
Pidal, Juan Carmona; Rosés, Joan R. - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2011
In Spain, land reform involving the break-up of large southern estates was a central issue during the first decades of the twentieth century. It was justified on the grounds of economic efficiency, social equity and the distribution of political power. This paper uses new provincial data on...
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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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Los conflictos por el agua en el País Valenciano durante la etapa feudal: el ejemplo de los molinos
Peris Albentosa, Tomàs Peris-Albentosa - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2011
In places like the Valencian Region, where the climate is arid, the flow rate of the rivers is irregular, and irrigation is essential if agrarian returns are to increase, the way water was distributed among irrigators often gave rise to clashes between them. This paper begins with an analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002537
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Land-use profiles of agrarian income and land ownership inequality in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century
Tello, Enric; Badia-Miró, Marc - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2011
According to the existing literature, when land remained the most abundant factor an increase in market integration is expected to lead to a greater inequality in wealth or income distribution. However, several case studies on the vineyard specialization experienced in Catalonia during the 18th...
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Mejorar y quedarse. La cesión de tierra a rentas por debajo del equilibrio en la Valencia del siglo XIX
Garrido, Samuel - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2010
By custom, in several different regions of Europe tenants were the owners of the improvements they carried out on the farm. As a result of such customs, rents usually remained below the Ricardian equilibrium over long periods of time and therefore cannot be used to calculate the total factor...
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Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800
Caballero, Carlos Santiago - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2010
This paper studies the evolution of income inequality in central Spain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, taking as case study the province of Guadalajara. The first part of the paper presents the sources and the dataset that was created to estimate income inequality using...
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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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