The Enclosure Movement and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

Tags: Economic Freedom, Economic Policy, Free Markets

09/20/2022 Phil Duffy

While historians paint the enclosure movement in negative terms, it actually played an important role in developing agricultural entrepreneurship.

Original Article: “The Enclosure Movement and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions”

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