Change and involution in sugar production in Cultivation-System Java, 1840-1870

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700024062
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 885-911
• 关键词: consistent covariance-matrix; heteroskedasticity

摘要

Production functions for sugar in four major sugar-producing zones in Cultivation-System Java (1840 through 1870) are estimated using colonial data. The estimates are analyzed for evidence of structural change in the years ii om 1848 to 1851. The results confirm. that the colonial reforms of those years were accompanied by significant changes in sugar production: the results are also consistent with the thesis of agricultural involution in Java. There is strong evidence for technological change in sugar production, though these gains cannot be specifically attributed to either the agricultural or the industrial aspect of sugar production.