Agricultural Supply During the Industrial Revolution: French Evidence and European Implications
通过分析1852年法国农业普查的价格和产出空间模式，发现市场渠道是19世纪中期前农业生产力提升的主要因素，且农业供给具有价格弹性，挑战了工业革命期间农业供给缺乏弹性的传统观点。
Analysis of the spatial pattern of prices and output in the manuscript returns of the French agricultural census of 1852 indicates that the availability of market outlets was probably the dominant factor determining the rise in agricultural productivity prior to the mid-nineteenth century and that agricultural supply was probably price elastic. The belief that the period of the industrial revolution was one of inelastic agricultural supply is shown to rest on a misinterpretation of the extant data on agricultural prices.