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Sugar Production in Northeastern Brazil and Cuba, 1858–1908

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

David A. Denslow Jr
David A. Denslow Jr
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Summaries of Doctoral Candidates
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 260 - 263
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1975

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1 The “expected scale,” or the average scale with the averaging being over the sugar produced, is a useful measure for analyzing the effects of scale on the productivity of the entire industry.

2 Sugar production in Hawaii and Puerto Rico expanded because full exemption from the tariff was in effect a subsidy nearly equal to the port-of-exit price of sugar shipped to the United States from Cuba and Brazil.

3 Prices are measured in equivalents to United States gold dollars at prevailing exchange rates. Wholesale prices in the United States were about the same in 1908 as in 1858.

4 The relative ease of planting and harvesting cane on level ground also raised productivity in Cuba.