The heavy plough and the agricultural revolution in medieval Europe
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- Thomas Barnebeck Andersen & Peter Sandholt Jensen & Christian Volmer Skovsgaard, 2014. "The Heavy Plough and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe," Working Papers 0070, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
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Keywords
Heavy plough; medieval technology; agricultural productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
- N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2013-03-16 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2013-03-16 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
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