The Organization of Exchange in Early Christian Ireland
研究了早期基督教爱尔兰的交换组织，发现物质财富的交换与生产完全融入权力获取、家庭和社会关系维护中，技术进步可能带来经济增长，但会引发高昂的社会成本。
The major contrast between preindustrial and modern economies is that the latter enjoy regular and rapid growth, whereas income per capita tends to stagnate in the former. Analysis of the organization of exchange in early Christian Ireland shows that the exchange and therefore the production of material wealth was so thoroughly integrated into securing and exercising power, as well as into establishing and maintaining family and social ties, that any improvements in technology which might have led to economic growth would inevitably have generated prohibitive social costs.