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Volume 24 - August 2009

Contents

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Research Article

  • Factor markets and the narrative of economic change in India, 1750–1950

  • TIRTHANKAR ROY
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 April 2009, pp. 137-167

  • This article revisits an argument that land, labour and credit market transactions in India were restructured by colonialism and globalization, in a manner that left peasants and labourers worse off than before. It shows that the process of change was more diverse than this approach considers, and that it was shaped also by social institutions. I argue further that growth and welfare outcomes of the process cannot be fully understood in terms of market imperfection and state policy. For that purpose, it is necessary to pay more attention to environmental factors and local society.

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Research Article

  • Land, labour and market forces in Tokugawa Japan

  • OSAMU SAITO
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 April 2009, pp. 169-196

  • This article examines the markets for land and labour in traditional Japan, where peasant families accounted for 80 per cent of the population; it focuses on the extent of these markets and how they operated. The survey of evidence, both literary and statistical, indicates that, while the size of the factor markets was small and limited, lease arrangements for farmland and the markets for seasonal labour and the rural–urban transfer of manpower functioned rather well. It is therefore suggested that market forces must have played an indispensable part in the process of Tokugawa Japan's proto-industrialization and Smithian growth.

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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • CON volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    10 July 2009, pp. f1-f3
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  • CON volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    10 July 2009, pp. b1-b4
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  • CON volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    20 April 2009, pp. f1-f3
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  • CON volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    20 April 2009, pp. b1-b8
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  • CON volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    24 November 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    24 November 2009, pp. b1-b16
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