A new look at U.S. agricultural productivity growth, 1800-1910

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 679-686

  Geib Gundersen, Lisa ^a   Zahrt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL STUDY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USA;

EID: 0030435490     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700016983     Document Type: Review

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