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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Property relations, rural producers, and agrarian development: Tokugawa Japan (1600--1868) Abstract: The neo-classical explanation of premodern economic development is based on the demand-pull effect of urban-rural trade and the behavioral assumption of how traditional rural producers respond to changing opportunity costs and incentives for profit. Institutional factors which structure both producer behavior and economic choices are largely overlooked and/or relegated to subsidiary roles in the long-term transformation of historical markets. In contrast to this position, it is argued here that commercialization in Tokugawa Japan took place in the context of a particular set of property relations predicated on the legal and physical separation of warriors from peasants. A re-examination of the socio-economic changes which took place at the village level before the intrusion of the market in key regions of Japan suggests that institutional, rather than market forces, provided the necessary framework for the transition of the pre-Meiji Japanese economy. |
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