Directions:
Please do each question below. The question weights are as indicated. Use graphs where you find them useful, but be sure to explain them. In general, be sure to explain yourself well enough that the grader understands you and knows that you know what you are doing. Finally, please type your answers double spaced, with adequate margins. Please draw your graphs neatly and legibly. Illegible answers will be considered incorrect. Sok scerencset
1a. (30%). In 1970, the economic historian, Evsey Domar, said that it would be impossible to have at one and the same time “free” land, “free” labour, and a land-owning aristocracy. If “free” land means land that is in super-abundant supply relative to demand–and therefore has a zero price–and “free” labour means labour that is free of bondage, explain why this combination would be impossible.
1b. (20%). If land is “free” in the sense above, what three organizations of an agrarian economy are possible? Explain why these are possible and why they are the only three that are possible. Which factors determine which of the three will prevail at any given place and time?
1c. (10%). If bondage arises in conditions where land is free as above, what basic changes in economic conditions could bring about its peaceful demise? Would the result necessarily be to make labour better off? Explain.
2. (10%). What is meant by the “scattering of strips” in medieval agriculture? Explain how this was a response to conditions existing in Europe during the Middle Ages and what its advantages were under these conditions. (Please give two distinctly different advantages.) What factors would cause this practice to disappear?
3. (30%). What was the Neolithic Revolution? Explain carefully what basic changes caused this “Revolution” and what basic changes in property rights accompanied it. In what fundamental way did society change and why did this change accompany the Neolithic Revolution–that is why could it not have occurred before and why was it necessary afterward? Also what was the role of learning in the Neolithic Revolution? How did this increase specialization and division of labour?
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