Erik Green

Asset ownership turns climate exposure into inequality

Igor Martins, Stefan Grab, Erik Green
(2026)
Preprint (in preprint archive)

Theoretical Foundations of the Economics of Slavery: Enslaved People as Capital Investments in the Atlantic World

Igor Martins, Erik Green
(2026)
Web publication/Blog post

Theoretical Foundations of the Economics of Slavery : Enslaved People as Capital Investments in the Atlantic World

Igor Martins, Erik Green
(2026) Journal of Global History, 21 p.22-40
Article

Income Mobility before Industrialization: Evidence from South Africa’s Cape Colony

Johan Fourie, Erik Green, Auke Rijpma, Dieter von Fintel
(2025) Social Science History, 49 p.22-51
Article

Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency : Trade, commodities and ecology

Ann M. Carlos , Erik Green, Calumet Links, Angela Redish
(2025) Economic History Review, 78 p.721-748
Article

Wealth and Marriage at the Cape: Consanguineous Unions as a Strategy

Erik Green, Jeanne Cilliers, Auke Rijpma, Anne E. McCants
(2025) The History of the Family, 30 p.258-284
Article

Wages, Gender, and Coercion : Socio-Economic Stratification and Labour Practices among the Khoe in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony

Calumet Links, Erik Green
(2025) International Review of Social History, 70 p.107-134
Article

Pre-colonial African economies

Erik Green
(2024) Handbook of African Economic Development , p.42-55
Book chapter

‘Waar is beter dorp in Zuid Africa dan Stellenbos?’ : What the Stellenbosch-Drakenstein Tax Censuses Reveal

Johan Fourie, Erik Green, Christiaan Burger, Chris de Wit, Kate Ekama, et al.
(2024) South African Historical Journal, 76 p.420-446
Article

Property Rights and Labour Relations : Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965

Erik Green, Mark Nyandoro
(2023) Journal of Southern African Studies, 49 p.889-906
Article

Estimating Historical Inequality from Social Tables: Towards Methodological Consistency

Dieter von Fintel, Calumet Links, Erik Green
(2023) Lund Papers in Economic History. , p.1-36
Working paper

Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society

Jeanne Cilliers, Erik Green, Robert Ross
(2023) Economic History Review, 76 p.257-282
Article

Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society

Jeanne Cilliers, Erik Green, Robert Ross
(2022) Lund papers in Economic history
Working paper

Window of Opportunities : The Great Depression, Protectionism and the Rise of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Africa

Erik Green
(2022) British Imperialism and Globalization, c. 1650-1960: Essays in Honour of Patrick O'Brien , p.202-224
Book chapter

The distributional effects of homogamy and consanguinity at the Cape

Erik Green, Jeanne Cilliers, Auke Rijpma, Anne E. McCants
(2022)
Other

Ecology, Indigenous Agency in the Seventeenth Century : A case study of Hudson Bay and Cape Colony

Erik Green, Calumet Links, Ann Carlos, Angela Redish
(2022)
Other

The social mobility of settlers : Evidence from annual Cape Colony tax censuses

Erik Green, Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel, Auke Rijpma
(2022)
Other

Systematic bias in social tables estimates of inequality? : Large bottom classes and small populations

Erik Green, Dieter von Fintel, Calumet Links
(2022)
Other

Creating the Cape Colony : The political economy of settler colonisation

Erik Green
(2022)
Book

Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy : Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

Erik Green, Mark Nyandoro
(2021) African Economic History Network Working Paper series , p.1-24
Working paper

Changes in Occupational Structure in Malawi, c. 1930-2010 : A Story of Structural Continuity?

Erik Green, Wapulumuka Mulwafu, Rory Pilossof
(2021)
Other

Institutions of Equal Opportunity? : Economic mobility in the Cape Colony

Erik Green, Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel, Auke Rijpma
(2021)
Other

The substitutability of slaves : Evidence from the Eastern frontier of the Cape Colony

Calumet Links, Johan Fourie, Erik Green
(2020) Economic History of Developing Regions, 35 p.98-122
Article

An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa : Economic Transformations and Political Changes

Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
(2019)
Book

Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, 1920-45

Maria Fibaek, Erik Green
(2019) Economic History of Developing Regions, 34
Article

Exploring the necessary empirical condition for estimating inequality with social tables

Erik Green, Dieter von Fintel, Calumet Links
(2019)
Other

Big data on Colonial History : Building an annual panel of households across several decades

Erik Green, Johan Fourie, Auke Rijpma, Dieter von Fintel
(2019)
Other

The Equality of Free Trade? : British Annexation of the Cape and its consequences

Erik Green, Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie
(2019)
Other

Inequality in Federation: Long-term inequality trends for Colonial Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe 1910-1965

Jutta Bolt, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2018)
Paper, not in proceeding

Afrika: en kontinents ekonomiska och sociala historia

Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
(2018)
Book

Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Johan Fourie, Erik Green
(2018) History of the Family, 23 p.493-502
Article

The Land-Labour Hypothesis in a Settler Economy : Wealth, Labour and Household Composition on the South African Frontier

Jeanne Cilliers, Erik Green
(2018) International Review of Social History, 63 p.239-271
Article

Colonial Africa

Erik Green
(2018) Routledge International Handbooks , p.37-49
Book chapter

Wage Labour and Slavery on the Cape Frontier

Erik Green, Johan Fourie
(2018) Work Around the Globe: Historical Comparisons and Connections , p.265-294
Book chapter

Traditional Landholding Certificates in Zambia : Preventing or Reinforcing Commodification and Inequality?

Erik Green, Milja Norberg
(2018) Journal of Southern African Studies, 44 p.613-628
Article

The land-labour hypothesis revised : Wealth, labour and household composition on the South African Frontier

Jeanne Cilliers, Erik Green
(2017) African Economic History Network Working Paper Series
Working paper

Coping with the Double Crisis : Lake Chilwa Recession and the Great Depression on Chisi Island in Colonial Malawi, 1930–1935

Joseph Nagoli, Erik Green, Wapulumuka Mulwafu, Linley Chiwona Karltun
(2017) Human Ecology, 45 p.111-117
Article

From Extensive to Involutionary Growth: A Dialectic Interpretation of the Boom and Busts of Cocoa Production in the Gold Coast

Erik Green
(2017) Journal of Agrarian Change, 17 p.518-534
Article

Development under the surface: the rise of indigenous agriculture as an unintended consequence of settler institutions in Southern Rhodesia, 1896–1962

Martin Andersson, Erik Green
(2016) Journal of International Development, 28 p.127-146
Article

Endogenous processes of Colonial Settlement : The success and failure of European settler farming in sub-Saharan Africa*

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2016) Revista de Historia Economica, 34 p.237-265
Article

Was the wage burden too heavy? - Settler farming, profitability, and wage shares of settler agriculture in Nyasaland, c. 1900-60

Jutta Bolt, Erik Green
(2015) Journal of African History, 56 p.217-238
Article

The development of agrarian capitalism revisited: Measuring the role of tenant labour on settler farms in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1960

Erik Green
(2015)
Paper, not in proceeding

Labour on Cape farms before and after the abolition on slave imports

Johan Fourie, Erik Green
(2015)
Paper, not in proceeding

The Internationalization of Economic History - Perspectives from the African Frontier

Erik Green, Pius Nyambara
(2015) Economic History of Developing Regions, 50 p.1-14
Article

The missing people - Accounting for the productivity of indigenous populations in Cape colonial history

Johan Fourie, Erik Green
(2015) Journal of African History, 56 p.195-215
Article

Land concentration, institutional control and African agency - Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c. 1900-1940

Erik Green
(2015) Agricultural transformations in global history
Book chapter

The economics of slavery in eighteenth century Cape Colony: Revising the Nieboer-Domar hypothesis

Erik Green
(2014) International Review of Social History, 59 p.39-70
Article

Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial Africa

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2014) African Economic History Network Working Paper Series
Working paper

Was the wage burden too heavy? : Profitability and wage shares of settler agriculture in colonial Malawi, c 1900-1960

Jutta Bolt, Erik Green
(2014) Lund Papers in Economic History. Development Economics
Working paper

Pathdependency in the historical flow of labour migration

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2014)
Other

Involutionary Growth in a Labour-Scarce Economy. A dialectic interpretation of the boom and bust of cocoa production in Ghana, c. 1890-1970

Erik Green
(2013) Lund Papers in Economic History. Development Economics
Working paper

Development under the surface – unintended consequences of settler institutions in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-1962

Martin Andersson, Erik Green
(2013)
Paper, not in proceeding

Production systems in pre-colonial Africa

Erik Green
(2013) THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
Book chapter

Was the wage burden too heavy? - Settler farming, wages and the profitability of settler agriculture in colonial Malawi, c 1900-1960

Erik Green, Jutta Bolt
(2013)
Paper, not in proceeding

Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Paper, not in proceeding

Double crisis: Water recession, the global depression and survival strategies on Chisi Island in Malawi, 1930-1935

Joseph Nagoli, Erik Green
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2012) Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa
Book chapter

Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the gap between methods and sources

Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, et al.
(2012) African Economic History Network Working Paper Series
Working paper

High-Level-Equilbroum Trap and Involution - Exploring the dynamics of recurrent growth in pre-colonial and colonial Africa

Erik Green
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Inequality and social tables in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1890-1960

Martin Andersson, Tobias Axelsson, Erik Green, Christer Gunnarsson
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Slavery, land and capital in 18th century Cape Colony: Revising the Nieboer-Domar hypothesis

Erik Green
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Understanding colonial extraction: Inequality extraction ratio and Inequality Possibility Frontier in Southern Rhodesia

Martin Andersson, Erik Green, Tobias Axelsson, Christer Gunnarsson
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Moving Forward in African Economic History : Bridging the gap between methods and sources

Ellen Hillbom, Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, et al.
(2012)
Other

Land Concentration, Intistutional Control and African Agency - Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c. 1900-1940

Erik Green
(2012) Lund Papers in Economic History
Working paper

Measuring colonial extraction - An endeavor to identify social classes in colonial Zimbabwe

Martin Andersson, Tobias Axelsson, Erik Green, Christer Gunnarsson, Ellen Hillbom
(2012)
Paper, not in proceeding

Indirect Rule and Colonial Intervention: Chiefs and Agrarian Change in Nyasaland, ca. 1933 to the Early 1950s

Erik Green
(2011) International Journal of African Historical Studies, 44 p.249-274
Article

Agrarian Populism in Colonial and Postcolonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2011) African Studies Review, 54 p.143-164
Article

State-Led Agricultural Intensification and Labour Relations: The case of Lilongwe Land Development program in Malawi, 1968-1981

Erik Green
(2010) International Review of Social History, 55 p.413-446
Article

Principal Trends and Debates in African Agriculture Development

Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom, Mattias Lindgren
(2010)
Paper, not in proceeding

Afrika - en kontinents ekonomiska och sociala historia

Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
(2010)
Book

Slavery and 'free' labour: Critical comments on rural labour relations in the 18th century Cape Colony

Erik Green
(2010)
Paper, not in proceeding

Property Rights, Labour Relations and agrarian populaism in colonial and post-colonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2010)
Paper, not in proceeding

Factor endowments and institutions: Explaining the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2009)
Paper, not in proceeding

A Lasting Story: Conservation and Agricultural Extension Services in Colonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2009) Journal of African History, 50 p.247-267
Article

Subventioner gav rekordskörd : Malawi gjorde rätt när man trotsade de internationella experternas råd

Erik Green
(2008) Omvärlden , p.24-25
Specialist publication article

Income diversification, labor and processes of agrarian change in southern and northern Malawi, 1930-1950

Erik Green
(2008) Agricultural History, 82
Article

Modern Agricultural History in Malawi: Perspectoves on Policy Choices

Erik Green
(2007) African Studies Review, 50 p.115-133
Article

EU:s jordbrukspolitik och global fattigdomsbekämpning

Erik Green, Ulf Jonsson
(2007) Internationella Studier, 1
Article

Bra med ny Afrikapolitik

Erik Green
(2007) Aktuellt i Politiken
Specialist publication article

From North-South to South-South: The Changing Geographies of African Trade

Erik Green, Ulf Jonsson
(2007)
Paper, not in proceeding

Jordbrukskriser i Afrika går att undvika

Erik Green, Linley Chiwona-Karltun
(2006) Omvärlden
Specialist publication article

Grova förenklingar löser inte fattigdomsproblematiken

Erik Green, Ulf Jonsson
(2006) Omvärlden , p.28-29
Specialist publication article

Peasant proudction and limits to labour Thyolo and Mzimba Districts in Malawi, mid-1930s to late-1970s

Erik Green
(2005) Lund Studies in Economic History
Doctoral Thesis (monograph)

Contradictions and constraints of land inetnsification: Agrarian change in colonial Malawi: 1930-1960

Erik Green
(2005)
Paper, not in proceeding

Limits of agricultural transformation: Agrarian change and the labour question in Nyasaland: The case of Cholo district, 1950-1962

Erik Green
(2005) Geografisk årsbok
Book chapter

Agrarian change and commercialisation in colonial Malawi: The case of Mzimba district, 1938-1962

Erik Green
(2005) Journal of South Africa Economic History
Article

Explanations to the agrarian question in Malawi: A critical discussion

Erik Green
(2004)
Paper, not in proceeding

Agricultural practices and gararian relations in colonial Malawi: The case of Thyolo and Mzimba in the 1930s

Erik Green
(2004)
Paper, not in proceeding

Understanding agrarian change: Theoretical and empirical considerations from the perspective of southern Malawi

Erik Green
(2003)
Paper, not in proceeding

Commercialisation in the 'Dead North': Agrarian change in Mzimba district, Nyasland

Erik Green
(2003)
Paper, not in proceeding

Master Farmers' Scheme and Agricultural Tranformation in colonial Malawi

Erik Green
(2003)
Paper, not in proceeding

Productive resources, markets and agrarian change in Nyasland: The case of Mzimba district

Erik Green
(2002)
Paper, not in proceeding