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ghost acres: a standalone construct

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Economic history

the land that would have been needed at home to produce resources a society imported or substituted, used to explain how colonies and coal eased European land constraints.

In economic history, ghost acres refers to the land that would have been needed at home to produce resources a society imported or substituted, used to explain how colonies and coal eased European land constraints. This meaning comes from Pomeranz (2000) in The Great Divergence.[1]

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divergence4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs ghost3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs great divergence1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Pomeranz, K. (2000). The Great Divergence. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823499

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