Feeding the world : an economic history of world agriculture, 1800-2000
"Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2005
History
xiv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780691120515, 9780691138534, 069112051X, 0691138532
62379284
Why is agriculture different?
Trends in the long run
Patterns of growth: the inputs
The causes of growth: the increase in productivity
Technical progress in agriculture
The microeconomics of agricultural institutions
Agricultural institutions and growth
The state and the market
Agriculture and economic growth in the long run