Bonds without bondsmen: Tenant-right in nineteenth-century Ireland
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Columbia University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S0022050700016041
发表日期：
1996
页码：
113-142
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摘要：
Tenant-right, or a tenant's right to sell his holding, was one of the most puzzling institutions of nineteenth-century Irish land tenure. Historians have argued that the institution reflects the tenants' assertions of a proprietary interest in the land, an assertion often backed up by threats and violence. In this article we argue that landlords respected tenant-right because they could profit from the institution. Our model reflects comments by contemporaries and explains that tenant-right functioned as a bond against nonpayment of rent and was part of a rational landlord's income-maximizing strategy.
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