Lundahl, Mats — The Haitian Economy: Man, Land and Markets (1983) Source Information

Lundahl, Mats — The Haitian Economy: Man, Land and Markets (1983) Source Information Author: Mats Lundahl Full Title: The Haitian Economy: Man, Land and Markets Publisher: Croom Helm (London) / St. Martin's Press (New York) Year: 1983 Type: Secondary Source — economic history, agrarian structure, peasant economy, market systems Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ PDF: ~/dev/rasin/data/sources/secondary_sources/annas_archive_new/lundahl-haitian-economy.pdf Status Text extracted: Yes (PDF) Review pass: Audited and integrated (2026-03-31) — full economic history pass focused on peasant land tenure, the indemnity fiscal drain, coffee marketing structure, erosion spiral, and the historiographical debate on underdevelopment Chapter notes: lundahl haitian economy ch notes Graph review in this pass: Strengthened post independence economics, marchandes, counter plantation system, coffee plantation, fermage system, provision grounds; anchored jean pierre boyer and alexandre pétion in the agrarian formation narrative Overview The Haitian Economy is the vault's only comprehensive economic history of nineteenth-century Haiti. Lundahl — a Swedish economist at the Stockholm School of Economics — approaches Haiti using neoclassical property rights theory (Furubotn and Pejovich) rather than dependency theory or Marxist frameworks.