The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure

This essay will surely be a most formative work in the study of agricultural change. In it Boserup lifts the theory of agricultural development out of the rut of sterile discussion of land use and tenure, and sets it within an illuminating dynamic framework, which reveals the irrelevance of old squabbles by raising neglected but fundamental issues.”—Charles Elliott, Economic History ReviewThe Conditions of Agricultural Growth remains a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development. Upon its initial appearance, it was heralded as a small masterpiece, which economic historians should read—and not simply quote.”—Giovanni Frederico, Economic History Services