title: Human energy and work in a European village.
abstract: In order to understand the problem of poverty its historical background must be elucidated. Since in the past most people in Europe were peasants living in small villages, a useful, initial way to examine the question of poverty is to investigate the villagers' condition of life. A basic contribution to this endeavor is to compile a food balance sheet that includes the food energy necessary for a healthy population, the amount of food in terms of calories that was available and the human energy required for the production of the nutriments. This essay is a case-study, incorporating these variables for the village Unterfinning (Bavaria) in 1721.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Freudenberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004032:Diet / Q000266:history; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005260:Female; D005523:Food Supply / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011203:Poverty / Q000266:history*; D012424:Rural Population / Q000266:history