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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