Food Expenditures and Economic Well-Being in Early Modern England
整合近代早期英格兰的食品支出数据，并与后期比较，质疑了前工业化时期食品支出占比的早期估算及食品支出缺乏弹性的假设。
The proportion of a household's budget spent on diet has commonly served as an important measure of material welfare. This paper pulls together data concerning trends in food expenditures for early modern England and draws comparisons with figures for later periods. The usefulness of wage assessments, a new source for estimating the proportion of outlays devoted to diet, is examined. The impact on food expenditures of new commodities and other dietary shifts is also explored. The findings call into question earlier estimates of the proportion of total expenditure devoted to food and drink in the pre-industrial period and the assumption that food expenditures are always inelastic.