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- Title
Supply Responsiveness in Irish Agriculture during the Nineteenth Century.
- Authors
Gráda, Cormac Ó.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the supply responsiveness in agriculture during 19th century in Ireland. In the two decades since Marc Nerlove proposed a new way of measuring supply responsiveness in agriculture, the catalogue of elasticities has become very extensive. The main result of all this work is to raise the status of the peasant in the development literature to one of "economic man""; the traditional caricature of the ignorant, stubborn farmer is less convincing now. The reasons for adding to the list are these: firstly, the figures presented refer to an earlier period than others derived so far, and, secondly, they suggest answers. however tentative, to a number of problems in Irish economic history. The statistics suggest a sudden drop in yields in the immediate post-Famine period, and this prompted Neilson Hancock, a prominent contemporary, to blame an unannounced change in the data collection procedure.
- Subjects
IRELAND; AGRICULTURE; CROP insurance; ECONOMIC structure; ECONOMIC indicators; BUSINESS cycles
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1975, Vol 28, Issue 2, p312
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2593490