The growth of agricultural output and food supply in Meiji Japan: Economic miracle or statistical artifact?

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 503-520

  Bassino, Jean Pascal ^a,b  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 30444456975     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497012     Document Type: Article

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