Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450–1789
利用租约和价格序列证据，研究了1450至1789年间巴黎盆地农业的全要素生产率，发现租约为研究生产力提供了新来源，并指出战争和增税时期生产力会倒退。
Using evidence from leases and price series, this article examines the total factor productivity of farming in the Paris Basin between 1450 and 1789. Existing evidence about productivity is unreliable, the article argues, and the leases provide historians with a new and valuable source for the study of productivity and economic growth. The article defends the methods used with the leases, which point to spurts of noteworthy growth on local farms but also to setbacks during times of war and increased taxation. It concludes with an analysis of the causes of economic growth in preindustrial agriculture.