Nature or Nurture? Explaining English Wheat Yields in the Industrial Revolution, c.1770
This article presents the first agricultural production function for the eighteenth century, thereby quantifying the effect of many new technologies coming on stream in English agriculture. It shows that some traditional technologies were effective in raising wheat yields, such as drainage and marli...
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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