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IT would be easy to catalogue the types of economic factors which may have motivated capital investment in agriculture. We could analyse changes in aggregate demand by investigating population growth, by investigating relative price movements, by looking at the supply of funds to finance capital projects, by looking at technical changes and the relationships with soil and topography, and so on. Such a catalogue might be more baffling than revealing. What is really required is to distinguish the causes from the favourable conditions, in which case it might be a question of conjunction of factors rather than prime causes [66: 272].
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Turner, M. (1984). Enclosure and Investment: The Decision to Enclose. In: Enclosures in Britain 1750–1830. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06033-7_3
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