The Decline of Property Rights in Man in Thailand, 1800–1913
研究了19世纪泰国废除徭役和奴隶制、转向土地财产权的过程，分析了商业化、国际贸易、帝国主义威胁和国家集权等背景因素，对理解制度变迁与经济发展关系有参考价值。
Like many land-abundant, labor-scarce economies, Thailand had a well-developed system of property rights in man. Over the nineteenth century corvée and slavery were abolished and replaced by military conscription, a head tax, and more precise property rights in land. Concomitant trends included extensive commercialization, the growth of international trade, imperialist threats to Thai sovereignty, and the growth of a centralized unitary state. Both domestic and international political motives influenced monarchs in the abolition of human-property rights. Economic change greatly facilitated these institutional changes.