Western Settlement and the Price of Wheat, 1872-1913
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4789120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Knick Harley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 865-878 |
| Publication date | 1978-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700087131 |
| OpenAlex | W2147507173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
The expansion of staple agriculture into the American West after the Civil War was an important event in the economic history of both the United States and the world. This migration of commercial farmers transformed the world's commodity markets. We would expect to find that these farmers were responding to price signals in a commercial fashion. Curiously, the existing literature has failed to detect a price responsiveness in western expansion. This failure appears to stem from a lack of appreciation of the importance of the spatial distribution of prices in the late nineteenth century. This study shows that when this factor is considered, the expansion of western cultivation clearly is connected to the prevailing local price of wheat
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Commodity · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Economy · First world war · Geography · Market economy · Settlement (finance) · World War II · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
Steers Afloat
The European Grain Invasion, 1870–1913
Oligopoly Agreement and the Timing of American Railroad Construction
American homesteaders and the Canadian prairies, 1899 and 1909
Farm Settlement on the Canadian Prairies, 1898 to 1911
Intra- and international commodity market integration in the Atlantic economy, 1800–1913
Closing Time
Peasants, bandits, and state intervention
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2021 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |