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Estimating English wheat production in the Industrial Revolution
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Wheat was the single most important product of the British economy during the Industrial Revolution, being both the largest component of national income and the primary determinant of caloric intake. This paper offers new estimates of annual wheat production during industrialisation. Whereas other researchers infer wheat production indirectly from demand equations, we estimate production directly from output equations. Our estimates are based on a new time series model of wheat yields, encomp...
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
- Article number:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 1999-06-01
- Paper number:
- 29
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- English
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1169742
- Local pid:
- pubs:1169742
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- 2021-03-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Liam Brunt
- Copyright date:
- 1999
- Rights statement:
- © 1999 the Author(s).
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