The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France
用一个简单的合同选择经济模型，解释16-17世纪法国分成制佃农的兴起，模型与定性和定量证据吻合，比传统历史解释更优。
This paper uses a simple economic model of contract choice to explain the growth of sharecropping in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France—a topic that figures in much of the social and economic history of the period. The theory turns out to fit both qualitative and quantitative evidence, and although the results are as yet only preliminary, the theory does provide a better account of the spread of sharecropping than the explanations upon which early modern historians have tended to rely.