A rethinking of Labrousse’s analyses of wheat price movements in 18th century France: Labrousse versus Labrousse?
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1 juin 2020
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Intercycle Labrousse Volatility Wheat price B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925/B.B1.B11 - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic) N - Economic History/N.N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics • Industrial Structure • Growth • Fluctuations/N.N1.N13 - Europe: Pre-1913 N - Economic History/N.N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy/N.N3.N33 - Europe: Pre-1913 N - Economic History/N.N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries/N.N5.N53 - Europe: Pre-1913Sujets proches
Wheats, Cultivated Triticum vulgare Triticum aestivum Triticum sativum Triticum Breadstuffs Spring wheat Cultivated wheats Council of Europe countriesCiter ce document
Jean-Daniel Boyer et al., « A rethinking of Labrousse’s analyses of wheat price movements in 18th century France: Labrousse versus Labrousse? », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.66j4tk
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Labrousse’s two investigations of cereal price movements (Labrousse 1933, 1944) suggest a sort of dualism in the arguments put forward in the two works (Morineau, 1966). Using contemporary data analysis and cliometrics, we propose to test different hypotheses that emerge from our reading of Labrousse (1933 and 1944). The first set of hypotheses relates to the long-term movement of grain prices. The second type of hypothesis relates to price cycles and price volatility. The originality of our approach in part relates to the very long runs of data drawn from different sources. Results of our study of the wheat price evolution partially questions Labrousse’s analysis.