Prices, Food, and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3396196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John J Mccusker, A J S Gibson, T C Smout |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 509 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205924 |
| OpenAlex | W2331024805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This 1994 book is a study of Scottish price history and a major contribution to the economic and social history of early modern and pre-industrial Britain. Using the remarkable series of 'fiars' prices for grains and other contemporary sources, Gibson and Smout focus, in particular, on the prices of grain, meal and animal products, and assess how Scots artisans and labourers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages. The authors show how the Scottish people experienced fluctuations in welfare both in the longer term from generation to generation, and within a given life-cycle. The Scottish records on prices and wages are a unique historical resource, to which Gibson and Smout have applied both traditional and quantitative historical techniques. In so doing they produced a powerful contribution to the perennial debate on the standard of living of ordinary people prior to the onset of industrialization
Agricultural economics · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Scottish History and National Identity
Love, Care and the Illegitimate Child in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
The laberinth of thir difficulties’
King William's Ill Years
The Waning of the Little Ice Age
Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550-1650
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |