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Markets and famines : evidence from nineteenth century Finland

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  • Cormac Ó Gráda

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This paper uses information on grain prices from mid-nineteenth century Finland to shed some light on how markets performed during one important, if unduly neglected, famine, the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-68. That famine, Europe's last major peace-time subsistence crisis, resulted in the deaths of over one hundred thousand people out of a population of 1.8 million.
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  • Cormac Ó Gráda, 2001. "Markets and famines : evidence from nineteenth century Finland," Open Access publications 10197/466, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
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    1. Olli Salmensuu, 2017. "A Potato Market Integration Analysis for India," Review of Market Integration, India Development Foundation, vol. 9(3), pages 111-138, December.
    2. Edvinsson, Rodney, 2015. "Pre-industrial population and economic growth: Was there a Malthusian mechanism in Sweden?," Stockholm Papers in Economic History 17, Stockholm University, Department of Economic History.
    3. Markus Jäntti & Juho Saari & Juhana Vartiainen, 2006. "Growth and Equity in Finland," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2006-06, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    5. Marks, Daan, 2010. "Unity or diversity? On the integration and efficiency of rice markets in Indonesia, c. 1920-2006," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 47(3), pages 310-324, July.
    6. Tiia‐Maria Pasanen & Miikka Voutilainen & Jouni Helske & Harri Högmander, 2022. "A Bayesian spatio‐temporal analysis of markets during the Finnish 1860s famine," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 71(5), pages 1282-1302, November.
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    8. Dribe, Martin & Olsson, Mats & Svensson, Patrick, 2015. "Famines in the Nordic countries, AD 536–1875," Lund Papers in Economic History 138, Lund University, Department of Economic History.

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    Keywords

    Famines--Finland; Markets--Finland;

    JEL classification:

    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q19 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Other

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