Cooperative Farming in North China
用线性规划模拟战前华北两村代表农户的合作形式，发现初级合作社能带来显著互利，但取消土地分红、按劳分配的升级版合作社因土地较多农户收入损失大而遭抵制。
A simple linear programming framework is used to simulate various forms of cooperation between representative farms of two villages in prewar China. The results suggest that even though the two farms individually were quite efficient revenue maximizers, significant mutual benefit would result from the formation of an elementary agricultural producers' cooperative. A move to an advanced cooperative in which dividend payments for land brought into the cooperative initially would be eliminated and income distributed solely according to labor contribution, however, would meet with strong resistance because a sizeable income loss would be involved for the farm with the larger initial land endowment.