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On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution

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  • Robert C. Allen
  • Cormac Ó Gráda

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In their day Arthur Young's tours of England, Ireland, and France represented a revolutionary approach to agricultural research. Here we avail of one part of the wealth of statistical data collected by Young-that on grain yields- to provide a comparative perspective on agricultural technique and progress in these countries around 1770 to 1850. We show that, ironically, Young's carefully assembled data do not always support some of his best-remembered generalizations.
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  • Robert C. Allen & Cormac Ó Gráda, 1986. "On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution," Working Papers 198645, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
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