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I Have been asked to deal with agricultural developments in relation to the take-off into sustained growth. This theme is a vast one and must be narrowed down considerably if it is to be at all manageable within a short paper. Accordingly, I have chosen to deal primarily with the problem of agrarian reform, by which I mean that process in which the social structure of agriculture, with regard to property, labour, and types of enterprise, changes from feudal or other pre-capitalist forms to modern ones. The importance of this transformation for technological progress in agriculture, and hence for the take-off, will, I hope, become clear as we proceed.
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See H. Myint, ‘The “Classical” Theory of International Trade and the Underdeveloped Countries’, in The Economic journal, June 1958.
On these concepts, see Albert O. Hirschman, The Strategy of Economie Development, Yale University Press, 1959, ch. 6.
(Marc Bloch, Les Caractères originaux de l’histoire rurale française, Paris, 1931, p. 220.)
See, for instance, James Duesenberry in The American Economic Review, May 1952, p. 558 ff.;
M. Kalecki, ‘El problema del financiamento del desarrollo económico’, in El Trimestre Económico, Oct.–Dec. 1954;
N. Kaldor, ‘Crescimento, Equilibrio e Desequilibrio’, in Revista Brasiliera de Económia, March 1957;
M. Dobb, An Essay on Economic Growth and Planning, London, 1960, p. 29.
On the point that land resources are ceasing to be the critical factor for agricultural progress, see Th. w. Schultz, ‘A New Era for Agriculture in Economic Growth’, in The Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Dec. 1959.
(Henri Sée, Histoire économique de la France, Paris, 1941).
On the development of the Meiergüter, see, for instance, Henri Sée, Esquisse d’une histoire du régime agraire en Europe aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, 1921.
(Lynn White, Jr., ‘Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages’, in Speculum, April 1940, here quoted from reprint in
A. F. Havighurst (ed.), The Pirenne Thesis. Analysis, Criticism and Revision, Boston, 1958, p. 79 ff.)
(F. Voechting, Die italienische Südfrage, Berlin, 1951, p. 69).
For an illuminating description, see Isac Chiva, ‘Causes sociologiques du sous-développement régional: l’exemple corse’, in Cahiers Inter nationaux de Sociologie, vol. XXIV 1958, p. 141 ff.
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Boserup, M. (1963). Agrarian Structure and Take-off. In: Rostow, W.W. (eds) The Economics of Take-Off into Sustained Growth. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63959-5_12
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