Plagues, Wages, and Economic Change in the Islamic Middle East, 700–1500
建立了中世纪埃及和伊拉克非熟练工人工资购买力的长期趋势，并估算了人均GDP。发现两次大瘟疫（查士丁尼瘟疫和黑死病）导致工资长期高于生存水平，高工资环境可能促进了伊斯兰黄金时代对高收入商品的需求。
This study establishes long-term trends in the purchasing power of the wages of unskilled workers and develops estimates for GDP per capita for medieval Egypt and Iraq. Wages were heavily influenced by two long-lasting demographic shocks, the Justinian Plague and the Black Death and the slow population recovery that followed. As a result, they remained above the subsistence minimum for most of the medieval era. We also argue that the environment of high wages that emerged after the Justinian Plague contributed to the Golden Age of Islam by creating demand for higher income goods.