The economic theory of sharecropping in early modern France [Peasant land, social stratification, rural economy, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, history]
Extract: This paper uses a simple economic model of contract choice to explain the growth of sharecropping in sixteenth- and seventeeth-century France--a topic that figures in much of the social and economic history of the period. The theory turns out to fit both qualitative and quantitative evidenc...
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| Published in | The Journal of economic history Vol. 44; no. 2 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.06.1984
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| Summary: | Extract: This paper uses a simple economic model of contract choice to explain the growth of sharecropping in sixteenth- and seventeeth-century France--a topic that figures in much of the social and economic history of the period. The theory turns out to fit both qualitative and quantitative evidence, and although the results are as yet only preliminary, the theory does provide a better account of the spread of sharecropping than the explanations upon which early modern historiams have tended to rely |
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| Bibliography: | B50 B E15 8529839 F00 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0507 1471-6372 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0022050700031910 |