On the Road Again with Arthur Young: English, Irish, and French Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution
利用阿瑟·杨在1770-1850年间收集的谷物产量数据，比较英格兰、爱尔兰和法国的农业技术与发展，发现其数据并不总是支持他著名的论断。
In their day Arthur Young's tours of England, Ireland, and France represented a revolutionary approach to agricultural research. Here we avail of one part of the wealth of statistical data collected by Young—that on grain yields—to provide a comparative perspective on agricultural technique and progress in these countries around 1770 to 1850. We show that, ironically, Young's carefully assembled data do not always support some of his best-remembered generalizations.