BEYOND THE THRESHOLD - AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR OF EARLY REAPER ADOPTERS
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S0022050700040560
发表日期：
1995
页码：
27-57
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摘要：
This article analyzes a large quantity of new data documenting the actual characteristics and behavior of early reaper adopters. It shows that a surprisingly large number of small-scale farmers were among the early purchasers and that institutional evolution-the emergence of local markets and cooperative exchanges for reaper services-encouraged rapid diffusion. These findings call into question the standard interpretation of northern farms as self-contained production units and, more specifically, challenge the usefulness of both the farm-specific-threshold model and the family-labor-constraint model.
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