Concept
Agrarian system
Overview
dynamic set of economic and technological factors that affect agricultural practices
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For the individual producer and exchanger, these laws are strange, and often unknown, forces, the nature of which must be laboriously investigated and ascertained. These economic laws of production are modified by the different stages of this form of production. But generally speaking, the entire period of civilization is dominated by these laws. To this day, the product controls the producer.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
States what Agrarian system is.
Under the influence of this desire, it shows mankind accumulating wealth, and employing that wealth in the production of other wealth; sanctioning by mutual agreement the institution of property; establishing laws to prevent individuals from encroaching upon the property of others by force or fraud; adopting various contrivances for increasing the productiveness of their labor; settling the division of the produce…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Close in meaning to Agrarian system; the term itself is not named.
In all countries which have passed beyond a very early stage in the progress of agriculture, every increase in the demand for food, occasioned by increased population, will always, unless there is a simultaneous improvement in production, diminish the share which on a fair division would fall to each individual. An increased production, in default of unoccupied tracts of fertile land, or of fresh improvements…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Close in meaning to Agrarian system; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Agriculturalism.