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Land Frontier Expansion in Settler Economies, 1830–1950: Was It a Ricardian Process?

In: Agricultural Development in the World Periphery

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  • Henry Willebald

    (Department of Economics, Universidad de la República)

  • Javier Juambeltz

    (Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (CETP-UTU))

Abstract

Settler economies (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay) benefited from the consequences of the Second Industrial Revolution as their temperate climate and fertile soils were suitable for the production of agrarian commodities. The main domestic contribution was the incorporation of “new” land into the economic relationships of the first expansion of the world capitalism. The aim of Chapter 17 is to understand this process in the long term (1830–1950) using the land frontier expansion as a central concept. We present a Ricardian analytical model to explain the process in terms of extensive and intensive margins. Our evidence supports the predominance of the extensive margin in Argentina, Uruguay and New Zealand, and the intensive margin in the first two and Chile, but not in the other countries.

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  • Henry Willebald & Javier Juambeltz, 2018. "Land Frontier Expansion in Settler Economies, 1830–1950: Was It a Ricardian Process?," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Vicente Pinilla & Henry Willebald (ed.), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery, chapter 17, pages 439-466, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-66020-2_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66020-2_17
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    1. Laura Maravall, 2020. "Factor endowments on the ‘frontier’: Algerian settler agriculture at the beginning of the 1900s," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(3), pages 758-784, August.
    2. Emiliano Travieso, 2023. "Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(2), pages 498-524, May.

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    JEL classification:

    • N5 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries
    • N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land

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