From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850
- ISBN-10
- 0226729532
- ISBN-13
- 9780226729534
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-11-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Winifred Barr Rothenberg
Description
Through innovative use of little used archival material, Rothenberg finds that the relevant economic magnitudes - farm commodity prices, wages for day and monthly farm labor, and the determinants of rural wealth holding - behaved as if they had been formed in a market. This ground breaking discovery reveals how an agricultural economy that lacked both an important export staple and technological change could experience market-led growth. To understand this impressive economic development, Rothenberg discusses a number of provocative questions.
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