Agriculture and Development in Prussian Upper Silesia, 1846–1913
研究了1846至1913年间德国奥珀伦地区农业增长与整体发展的关系，发现农业通过提高收入、提供劳动力和抑制食品价格支撑了经济增长。
Agrarian growth was related to overall development in Regierungsbezirk Oppeln in Germany between 1846 and 1913. Oppeln was characterized by an ethnically mixed population (Polish and German) as well as by both agricultural and industrial development. Using new estimates of agricultural output, acreage, and yields, agrarian growth and its sources are described and its linkages to the nonagrarian sector are explored. Variation among subdistricts ( Kreise ) is also studied. Agriculture experienced uneven growth, but it supported overall growth through rising incomes, provision of labor to the nonagricultural sector, and helping to restrain growth in food prices.