Domesday economy : a new approach to Anglo-Norman history

Domesday economy : a new approach to Anglo-Norman history / John McDonald and G.D. Snooks.

Contains detailed and comprehensive information on ownership, income, resources, and fiscal responsibilities for almost evey manor of Norman England in 1086. The bewildering and voluminous data of the Domesday Book has baffled economists in the past, but Snooks and McDonald have compiled an unequale...

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Main Authors: McDonald, John, 1945- (Author), Snooks, G. D. (Graeme Donald) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1986.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Wilhelm (England, König, I.)
Domesday book.
Domesday book
1066-1485
Geschichte 1086-1100
Geschichte 1066-1086
Geschichte 1066-1485
Geschichte 1086
Normans > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Economic history
Normans
Wirtschaft
Geschichte
Economische geschiedenis.
Domesday Book.
Normands > Angleterre > conditions économiques.
Great Britain > History > William I, 1066-1087.
England > Economic conditions > 1066-1485.
England > Economic conditions.
England
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne > histoire > 1066-1087 (Guillaume 1)
Angleterre > conditions économiques > 1066-1485 (Moyen Age)
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; PART I: HISTORICAL STUDIES; 1 Domesday Book re-examined; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Aims and methods; 1.3 Scope and structure of inquiry; 1.4 The traditional interpretation of Domesday Book; 1.5 Historical events surrounding the Domesday Survey; 2 The economy and Survey of 1086; 2.1 The economy; 2.2 The Survey; 3 Old and new approaches; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The traditional approach; 3.3 A new approach; 3.4 Conclusions; 4 Tax assessments for the geld; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The geld: a non-feudal tax; 4.3 Interpretations of Domesday assessments
  • 4.4 The incidence of taxation in 10864.5 Statistical analysis of tax assessments; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 Manorial income; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 What were the annual values?; 5.3 Interpretations of the relationship between value and resources; 5.4 The distribution of manorial income; 5.5 Statistical analysis of manorial income; 5.6 Conclusions and implications; 6 The system of manorial production; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 A model of manorial production; 6.3 The theory of Domesday production; 6.4 A Domesday production function; 6.5 The system of Domesday production, Essex, 1086
  • 6.6 An extension of the Essex 1086 results6.7 Conclusions; 7 Towards an economics of Domesday England; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A contribution to Domesday studies; 7.3 An economics of Domesday England; PART II: ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL METHODS; 8 Statistical methods; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Summarizing a scatter of observations by the least squares method; 8.3 The least squares method: justication in terms of sampling properties; 8.4 Summary and illustration of concepts introduced in 8.3; 8.5 Properties of the least squares method in the normal regression model; 8.6 Use of a computer
  • 8.7 Large sample properties of least squares estimators in the regression model8.8 Maximum likelihood estimation; 8.9 Relationships involving several explanatory variables; 8.10 Determining the functional form of the relationship: theBox-Cox method; 8.11 The problem of variation in the variance of the regression disturbance: heteroskedasticity; 8.12 Testing for functional form and heteroskedasticity; 8.13 Application of theBox-Cox extended maximum likelihood method, allowing for heteroskedastic disturbances, to the Essex lay annual value-resources 1086 data; 8.14 Simpler estimation procedures
  • 9 Economic production functions9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Some characteristics of production functions; 9.3 Isoquants and their properties; 9.4 The elasticity of substitution between two resources; 9.5 Returns to scale, homogeneity, and homotheticity; 9.6 The Cobb -Douglas production function; 9.7 The Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function; 9.8 Generalizing the CES production function to allow for more than two resources; 9.9 The Mukerji production function; 9.10 The Sato production function; 9.11 Flexible functional forms: the Generalized Linear (GL) production function

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