Organizers: Bozong Li (China) and Ken'ichi Tomobe (Japan)
Address: Bozong Li, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Ph: 86 10 62771851. Fax: 86 10 62784663. 
Email: libzh@tsinghua.edu.cn.

Description of the session: Economic historians are gradually approaching the view that the XVIIIth and early XIXth centuries witnessed vigorous agricultural growth in
some areas of Eurasia-- Europe (especially England, the Netherlands, and so on), Russia, China, Japan, India and perhaps some parts of Southeast Asia. This session will examine those aspects which are directly related to agricultural productivity, i.e. cropping patterns, yields, labor and capital input (and related farming methods and techniques), land input (quantity, quality, irrigation) and other costs of inputs, wages, commercialized farming, and the like. The examination will be combined with a general
discussion of the 'environmental' factors, such as climate, soil conditions, infrastructure, marketing structure, etc. On the basis of the examination and discussion, the session will concentrate in a comparison of agricultural productivity in major areas of XVIIIth- and early XIXth- century Eurasia and try to see what patterns of agricultural development that these areas followed. The discussion of the topic ought to raise the quality of future debate about "early modern" economic development in major areas of pre-industrial Eurasia besides England.

Participants: Jan Luiten van Zanden (The Netherlands); Giovanni Federico (Italy); Piotr Franaszek (Poland); Peter Boomgaard (The Netherlands); Prasannan Parthasarathi (USA); Jeong-Sup Yeom (Korea); Li Bozhong (China).
 

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