Land and Labour Productivity in Pre-Industrial Agriculture
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Venue Department of Economics University of Copenhagen 6 Studiestraede DK-1455 Copenhagen Denmark
Date November 7, 2008
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Final Program
09:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00 Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast):
Productivity change in European agricultural development:
some reflections
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:00 Jacob Weisdorf (Copenhagen):
Labour Requirements of English Farm Workers, 1280-1830:
A Cost-of-Living Approach
12:00-12:45 Alexandra Sapoznik (Cambridge):
Open field cropping strategies:
Comparing peasant and landlord agriculture at 14th century Oakington
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Stephen Broadberry (Warwick):
English Agricultural Output and Labour Productivity, 1250-1850:
Some Preliminary Estimates
14:45-15:30 Lotta Leijonhufvud (Stockholm):
Calculating Productivity Differently
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:45 Ben Dodds (Durham):
The Black Death, tithes and Productivity in England
16:45-17:30 Michael Kopsidis (IAMO):
Technical Change and Scale-Effects in Westphalia's Peasant Agriculture
and the Rise of the Ruhr, circa 1830-1880
17:30-17:45 End address
17:45-18:45 Beer and bacon cracklings
19:00- Dinner
Please allow 10-15 minutes for discussion
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Organizers Jacob Weisdorf (jacob.weisdorf@econ.ku.dk) and Paul Sharp (paul.sharp@econ.ku.dk)
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