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              Name:  Gregory Clark
               Email:  gclark at ucdavis.edu
         Institution:  University of California, Davis  

         Co-author:  None
 
             Title:  A Revolution Too Many: The Agricultural
Revolution, 1700-1850  

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of abstracted work:  Not available on the Internet  

           By mail:  
                     Gregory Clark
                     Department of Economics
                     University of California
                     Davis, CA 95616  USA
                     
 
          Language:  English
 
          Abstract:
   Almost all respectable historians believe that an agricultural
revolution was a key component of the Industrial Revolution.
Using simple arithmetic, this paper argues that English
agriculture was in reactionary torpor, not revolutionary
excitement, between 1700 and 1850.  The value of output in
agriculture has to be greater than the payments for wages, land
rent, and tithe.  Yet if the revolutionists are correct, wages,
rent, and tithe in 1700 added up to 175 percent of output.  There
is no escaping this paradox unless we abandon the idea of an
agricultural revolution in these years.
 
      Bibliography:  Clark, Gregory.  "A Revolution Too Many: The
Agricultural Revolution, 1700-1850."  Agricultural History
Center, University of California, Davis, Working Paper #91, 1997.
 
                  Subject:  A
 Geographical Area:  4
      Country/Region:  England
           Time Period:  6
 
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