THE ECONOMICS OF TENANT RIGHTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY IRISH AGRICULTURE

JOEL M. GUTTMAN

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THE ECONOMICS OF TENANT RIGHTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY IRISH AGRICULTURE

JOEL M. GUTTMAN

Department of Economics

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The Land Act of 1870, which introduced “tenant rights” to most of Ireland, was the prototype of the modern land reform. This paper develops an alternative to the conventional view that the Land Act was instituted to redistribute wealth. It is suggested that tenant rights became economically valuable as a result of massive emigration from Ireland in the nineteenth century. Data on land rents and landlord investment are consistent with this “efficiency” hypothesis, and tend to refute the “redistribution” hypothesis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	408-424
Number of pages	17
Journal	Economic Inquiry
Volume	18
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1980.tb00587.x
State	Published - Jul 1980

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