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Change and Involution in Sugar Production in Cultivation-System Java, 1840–1870

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Siddharth Chandra  and
Timothy J. Vogelsang
Siddharth Chandra
Affiliation:
Siddharth Chandra is Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, 3R25 Forbes Quadrangle, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 E-mail: schandra+@pitt.edu.
Timothy J. Vogelsang
Affiliation:
Timothy J. Vogelsang is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. E-mail: tjv2@cornell.edu.
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Abstract

Production functions for sugar in four major sugar-producing zones in Cultivation- System Java (1840 through 1870) are estimated using colonial data. The estimates are analyzed for evidence of structural change in the years from 1848 to 1851. The results confirm that the colonial reforms of those years were accompanied by significant changes in sugar production: the results are also consistent with the thesis of “agricultural involution” in Java. There is strong evidence for technological change in sugar production, though these gains cannot be specifically attributed to either the agricultural or the industrial aspect of sugar production.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 885 - 911
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999

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