feudal economy in Europe, came to replace the slave mode of management in the third or fourth century AD.The change was not a one-step, gradually, from decade to decade landowners applied in their latifundia slave labor, began to pay attention to the fact that economic efficiency estates start to steadily decline.This was due to the general crisis of the slave system: wars of conquest of Rome gradually disappeared, the influx of slaves from the outside dried up, and slave families were never many children.And with the development of agronomic crops are not interested in the results of their labor slaves and they could not and did not want to process quality considerably depleted land.
ensued predominantly feudal slave-owning Rome, Byzantium soon showed its economic viability.Barbarian kingdoms that arose on the site of the Western Roman Empire, too, were not the slave.Since then, the gradual development and improvement of the system of management, which later became known as "feudal economy."Relapses of slavery in Europe (especially in Muslim countries) have never played a significant economic role.
feudal economy to meet the needs of society but at a relatively low level needs.The large number of small proprietors personally unfree not conducive to intensive development of the economy.Productivity in these circumstances could not be high.However, it is not for the city.No wonder in the Middle Ages there was a saying "city air makes you free".The farmer, who managed to escape from his lord and live for several years in the city, became legally free.When we say "feudal economy" mean by this medieval way of doing just agriculture.Cities at the time were the locomotives of history, before they began to show the beginnings of the new, capitalist relations: there manufactory division of labor.
As society became apparent failure of serfdom as a thousand years before this - the failure of slavery.In Europe, began the gradual abolition of serfdom, the feudal economy throughout retreat before the capitalist.
In most European countries serfdom was abolished during the eighteenth - the first half of the nineteenth century.One of the last of the Russian Empire was where serfdom was abolished in 1861.Later, Russian serfdom was abolished in Romania and Bulgaria.In all cases, reforms have recorded already established new capitalist relations.
economic definition of scientific political economy, "born" in the nineteenth century, became the basis for the development of social science in the twentieth century.Classical and Post-Capitalist capitalist economy proved incredibly difficult economy preceding centuries, and economic coercion to work - far more effective non-economic.
