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The Fruits of Revolution - Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860 (Hardcover, New)
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The Fruits of Revolution - Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
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In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two
central questions in French economic history: To what extent did
institutions hold back agricultural development under the Old
Regime, and did reforms carried out during the French Revolution
significantly improve the structure of property rights in
agriculture? Both questions have been the subject of much debate.
Historians have touched on them in a number of local studies, yet
usually they have been more concerned with community conflict than
with economic development. Economists generally have researched the
performance of the French economy without paying much attention to
the impact of institutions on specific areas of the economy. This
book attempts to utilize the best of both approaches: It focuses on
broad questions of economic change, yet it is based on detailed
archival investigations of the impact of property rights on water
control. Part I provides both an introduction to French economic
history between 1700 and 1860 and an introduction to the economic
literature on property rights and institutions. Part II first looks
at water control from a national perspective and then examines two
case studies, one of drainage in Normandy and one of irrigation in
Provence. The national evidence shows that most water control
efforts failed before 1789, whereas 1820-60 were boom years for
irrigation and drainage. Quantitative and qualitative evidence
suggests that neither technology nor relative prices were
responsible for the failure to develop agriculture under the Old
Regime; rather, ambiguous property rights, divided authority, and
endless litigation all conspired to reduce the efficacy of water
control. The Revolutionsolved important institutional problems for
the countryside by centralizing authority over eminent domain,
reforming the judiciary, and clarifying property rights to land
water. As a result, after 1820 water control flourished. Part III
of the book is devoted to explaining why inefficient property
rights arose in the Middle Ages and prevailed until 1789. A set of
theoretical models is analyzed to argue that ill-defined property
rights were part of the very structure of the Old Regime--a fact
that made reform impossible without a revolution.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions |
Release date: |
February 1992 |
First published: |
1992 |
Authors: |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
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Dimensions: |
235 x 157 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
236 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-39220-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Political economy
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LSN: |
0-521-39220-9 |
Barcode: |
9780521392204 |
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