The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750–1855
通过检验五个可量化假设，利用手稿账簿数据，证明马萨诸塞州农村经济从早期就受到市场影响，为前工业时期新英格兰农业的市场导向争论提供了方法和实质贡献。
This paper attempts to make a contribution, both in method and in substance, to the debate about the timing and extent of market orientation in pre-industrial New England agriculture. The method consists in testing five quantifiable hypotheses, with data from manuscript account books and daybooks. The results, in repeated trials, confirm the influence of the market on the rural economy of Massachusetts from very early on.