TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Road Again with Arthur Young
T2 - English, Irish, and French Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution
AU - Allen, Robert C.
AU - Grada, Cormac O.
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The Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 (Mar. 1988). © The Economic History Association. All rights reserved. ISSN 0022-0507. Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Y2, Canada. Cormac 6 Grada is a member of the Department of Political Economy, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland and Visiting Professor of Economics, Northwestern University. The authors would like to thank the following people for helpful comments and discussions: Bruce Campbell, Nick Crafts, Francois Crouzet, Louis Cullen, Lance Davis, David Dickson, George Grantham, Alan Green, Knick Harley, Dan Heath, Joanne Innes, Eric Jones, Liam Kennedy, Frank Lewis, John McManus, Joel Mokyr, Patrick O'Brien, Angela Redish, Bill Schworm, Peter Solar, Michael Turner, and Herman van der Wee. Earlier versions of this article were presented to seminars at the University of British Columbia; the University of Chicago; and Queen's University, Canada; and to the Conference on International Productivity Comparisons, 1750-1939, Bellagio; the Irish Economic and Social History Conference, Galway; and the International Economic History Congress, Berne. We are grateful to all the participants at these sessions for their discussion. We would like to thank Nancy South for research assistance and Frank Flynn for assistance with programming and data analysis. We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support. 1 Arthur Young, A Six Months' Tour Through the North of England [henceforth Northern Tour] (2nd edn., London, 1771), vol. 1, p. iii; Arthur Young, Six Weeks Tour Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales (London, 1768) [henceforth Six Weeks Tour]. 2 Arthur Young, Northern Tour, and Arthur Young, The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England (London, 1771) [henceforth Eastern Tour]. 'Arthur Young, Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1780; A. W. Hutton, ed., London, 1892) [henceforth Tour in Ireland].
PY - 1988/3
Y1 - 1988/3
N2 - In their day Arthur Young’s tours of England, Ireland, and France represented a revolutionary approach to agricultural research. Here we avail of one part of the wealth of statistical data collected by Young—that on grain yields—to provide a comparative perspective on agricultural technique and progress in these countries around 1770 to 1850. We show that, ironically, Young’s carefully assembled data do not always support some of his best-remembered generalizations.
AB - In their day Arthur Young’s tours of England, Ireland, and France represented a revolutionary approach to agricultural research. Here we avail of one part of the wealth of statistical data collected by Young—that on grain yields—to provide a comparative perspective on agricultural technique and progress in these countries around 1770 to 1850. We show that, ironically, Young’s carefully assembled data do not always support some of his best-remembered generalizations.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0022050700004162
DO - 10.1017/S0022050700004162
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959620181
SN - 0022-0507
VL - 48
SP - 93
EP - 116
JO - The Journal of Economic History
JF - The Journal of Economic History
IS - 1
ER -