作者：University of Copenhagen
摘要：Scholars have long held strong views about the nature and extent of grain storage in early modem Europe. Direct evidence on the issue is quite poor and inconclusive.(1) Randall Nielsen's ambitious attempt at solving the problem in a recent issue of this JOURNAL therefore deserves serious attention.? Like others before him, Nielsen uses inferences from price behavior in assessing the nature of grain storage. Nielsen identifies three distinguishing implications of profit-maximizing storage for g...
作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：University of Maine System; University of Maine Orono
作者：Burnette, J
摘要：The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employment maintained the same seasonal pattern. These seasonal and sexual shifts in the demand for labor p...
作者：European University Institute
