Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Hoffman, Philip T.
Date:	1981
Agency:	Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Series:	Social Science Working Paper, no. 406
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5862
Sector:	Agriculture History
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	agriculture investment
Abstract:	"This paper examines the wave of investment in agriculture in 16th and 17th century France, a movement with parallels throughout western Europe. After dismissing the explanations advanced by most historians, I argue that the investment in agriculture resulted from royal tax policy. I then consider the predilection investors showed for sharecropping and suggest that this predilection can be explained in light of modern economic theories of share contracts."

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