RURAL RESPONSE TO INCREASED DEMAND - CROP CHOICE IN THE MIDWEST, 1860-1880
成果类型：
Article; Proceedings Paper
署名作者：
GREGSON, ME
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S002205070001295X
发表日期：
1993
页码：
332-345
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摘要：
Demand for farm products grew, and the cost of marketing them shrank, between 1860 and 1880. The resulting commercialization of Midwestern agriculture has been widely discussed, but the production strategies that farmers pursued have not been adequately described or modeled. I find that an endowment-contingent model of crop choice provides a consistent explanation for farm production strategies's at the micro-level on Missouri farms. The results call for a reexamination of the conventional wisdom that commercialization fostered specialization at the regional level.