Farm Mortgages in the Middle West

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  • アメリカ中西部における農場抵当負債 : 計量経済への一批判
  • アメリカ中西部における農場抵当負債--計量経済史への一批判
  • アメリカ チュウセイブ ニ オケル ノウジョウ テイトウ フサイ ケイリョウ ケイザイシ エ ノ イチ ヒハン

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Agrarians and traditional historians viewed the farm mortgage as one of the major grievances of western farmers in the late nineteenth century. It is said that eastern moneylenders charging usurious interest rates were robbing the debt-ridden farmers of the Middle West. Recent historians, however, tend to emphasis the brighter side of farm mortgages. The revisionists hold that (1) the proportion of mortgaged farms was not high enough to arouse farmers; (2) farmers borrowed money for productive purposes; (3) the interest rates were declining throughout the decades; (4) the average life span of a farm mortgage was very short; and (5) the source of mortgage credit was the Middle West. The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the arguments upheld by revisionist historians, especially those based on quantitative methods.

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  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY

    SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY 36 (2), 136-155,198-19, 1970

    THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

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