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The Brenner debate was a major debate amongst Marxist historians during the late 1970s and early 1980s, regarding the origins of capitalism.The debate began with Robert Brenner's 1976 journal article "Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe", published in the influential historical journal Past & Present.
Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. In addition to work in agronomy , Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock .
The economics of English agriculture in the Middle Ages is the economic history of English agriculture from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509. England's economy was fundamentally agricultural throughout the period, though even before the invasion the market economy was important to producers.
Robert Paul Brenner (/ ˈ b r ɛ n ər /; born November 28, 1943) is an American economic historian. He is a professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA , [ 4 ] editor of the socialist journal Against the Current , and editorial committee member of New Left Review .
His 1731 book The New Horse Hoeing Husbandry explained the systems and devices he espoused to improve agriculture. The book had such an impact that its influence can still be seen as the start of modern farming. Charles Townsend, a viscount known as "Turnip Townsend", in the 1730s introduced turnip farming on a large scale.
Because agriculture is a large part of most developing economies, both in terms of employment and share of GDP, agricultural economists have been at the forefront of empirical research on development economics, contributing to our understanding of agriculture's role in economic development, economic growth and structural transformation.
Robert Carson Allen (born 10 January 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts) is Professor of Economic History at New York University Abu Dhabi. [1] His research interests are economic history , technological change and public policy [ 2 ] and he has written extensively on English agricultural history. [ 3 ]
A page of the Domesday Book, capturing the economic condition of England in 1086. Although primarily rural, England had a number of old, economically important towns in 1066. [3] A large amount of trade came through the Eastern towns, including London, York, Winchester, Lincoln, Norwich, Ipswich and Thetford. [3]