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This article challenges the growing consensus in the literature that medieval manorial managers were price responsive in their production decisions. Using prices of and acreages planted with wheat, barley, and oats on manors held by the bishop of Winchester from 1325 to 1370, price elasticities of supply are estimated for each grain in aggregate and on each particular manor. Aggregate price elasticities of supply for wheat, barley, and oats were rarely statistically significant and when significant were very low compared with elasticities estimated for developing and developed countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The low levels of agricultural supply response in fourteenth‐century England suggest that commercialization was not as dominant in the medieval economy as has been argued. Thus, structural changes in the economy, such as the leasing of demesnes, the growth of wage labour, and the end of villeinage, may have been more important than price fluctuations in driving long‐run economic change after the Black Death. Likewise, a shift from low price responsiveness to higher price responsiveness could have been an important part of the capitalist transformation of agriculture in the early modern period.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Revitalizing the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria: Implications for Root and Tuber Crops Value Chains and Contribution to Health Care -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Root and Tuber Crops in Nigerians' Economy and Diet -- Agriculture and Human Sustenance- The Socioeconomic Viewpoint -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- An Investigation of the Impact of the Military Crisis in Ukraine on Agricultural Production and Land Resources in Crisis Territories: Approaches, Algorithms, and Methods -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Conflict Case Study -- Methodology -- Data Analysis: Big Data Classification and Regularization and Optimization Approaches to Multi-Source Data -- A Model of the Population Dynamics in Conflict-Hit Areas -- Assessing Population Dynamics in the Crisis-Hit Area Using Multi-Source Data -- The Population Assessment Stochastic Approach in Rural Areas Using Multi-Source Data -- A Stochastic Approach to Population Assessment in Urban Areas Using Multi-Source Data -- Satellite Observations for Population Dynamics Control -- Economic Dynamics in the Crisis-Hit Area Using Multi-Source Data: Agricultural Production Assessment Tools -- Markov's Chain Modelling of Satellite Data to Analyze Changes in Land-Use Structure -- An Analysis of Land-Use Efficiency and Crop Structure Dynamics Using Satellite Data -- An Assessment of Variations in Economic Activity Based on Satellite Data Integration into a Multi-Source Data Analysis Approach -- Approaches to Cartographic Modeling for the Assessment and Mapping of the Appraisal and Economic Assessments of Agricultural Land -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 -- The Role of Agriculture for the Integration of Migrants: The Italian Case -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Emigration and Socio-Economic Development