The Haitian Economy: Man, Land and Markets

A comprehensive economic history of nineteenth-century Haiti, organized as a collection of essays covering peasant land tenure, coffee marketing from grower to exporter, land fragmentation, environmental degradation, and the fiscal consequences of the 1825 indemnity. Lundahl applies neoclassical property rights theory rather than dependency or Marxist frameworks to argue that Haitian poverty resulted from a compounding interaction of soil erosion, population growth, fiscal predation, and institutional stagnation — not from market failure or external exploitation alone.