The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did
sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

Debate can advance scholarly discussion, and I am grateful to JAS for the chance to do so
here. As much as possible, I would like to move forward by introducing additional arguments …

This article explores the pattern of land rents and agricultural productivity across nineteenth-
century Prussia to gain new insights on the causes of the “Little Divergence” between …

B uerliche Agrarrevolutionen pr gten Europas Neuzeit und Industrialisierung. Bis heute
fehlt jedoch eine befriedigende Erkl rung fuer die konomische Vitalit t der neuzeitlichen …

Until the Second World War agriculture constituted Hungary's largest economic sector, and
structural transformation from an agricultural to an industrial country proceeded slowly …

IN AN ATFEMVI'to untangle competing analyses of the rural economy in early America, Allan
Kulikoff notes with some relief that historians do partly agree in their descriptions: the self …

Reflecting mainly on life in the Ohio Valley in the 1830s, Toqueville observed that people<
whose comfortable existence is equally far from wealth and poverty set immense value on …

For almost a hundred years, the Willie Commelin Scholten laboratory was the hub of
phytopathology research in the Netherlands, where generations of students learned the …

Gegenwärtig (2007/08) arbeiten knapp sechs Prozent aller Beschäftigten in der
Europäischen Union (EU-27) in der Landwirtschaft. Ihr Beitrag zur gesamten …