תוכן הענינים:
  • 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