Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France
研究了16-17世纪法国农业投资浪潮后分成制佃农的扩散，认为这是一种有利于地主和佃农的风险分担方式，结论可能适用于近代早期欧洲其他地区。
The paper examines the spread of sharecropping that followed a wave of investment in agriculture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. Using results from the modern theory of share contracts, it argues that sharecropping was a means of risk sharing that favored both landlords and tenants. Although the evidence used in this paper comes from France, the results may well apply to other areas of early modern Europe.