Article ID: CBB001201091

Manorial Estates as Business Firms: The Relevance of Economic Rent in Determining Crop Choices in London's Hinterland, c.1300 (2008)

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This paper addresses the claim made by some scholars that production decisions on the part of manorial estates in the London region c. 1300 conformed to the logic of a model advanced by the German agricultural economist Johann von Thunen. The claim is tested by calculating the economic rent of four major grains and the results are contrasted with actual cropping patterns, revealing certain discrepancies. In the end, an alternative interpretation is offered questioning the relevance of von Thunens model. Bibliographic Information(back to top)

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Authors & Contributors
Hahn, Barbara
Saraiva, Tiago
Berenji, Janos
Berry, Dominic
Bray, Francesca
Coclanis, Peter A.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Agricultural History
Antiquity
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Economic Botany
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Publishers
Ashgate
Bromyard & District Local History Society
Firenze University Press
Oxford University Press
Prospect Books
Yale University Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Grain crops; Cereals; Grasses
Science and economics
Agricultural economics
Science and industry
People
al-Jazari, Isma'il Ibn Al-Razzaz
Brecht, Bertolt
Fortune, Robert
Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron
Plat, Hugh
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Early modern
17th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Eastern Europe
Great Britain
India
China
European Union
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