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

Published Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-Book 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 Summary 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 unequaled new interpretation of this ancient work now in its 900th anniversary. Using modern economic theory and statistical techniques, the authors reappraise the relationship between manorial revenue and resources to attain a new perspective on the English economy between 1066 and 1086 Analysis England Economic conditions, 1066-1086 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-233) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record SUBJECT Wilhelm (England, König, I.) swd Domesday book. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81063021 Domesday book fast Domesday book gnd Subject 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. SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056737 England -- Economic conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001376 England -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043294 Subject England Great Britain England Grande-Bretagne -- histoire -- 1066-1087 (Guillaume 1) Angleterre -- conditions économiques -- 1066-1485 (Moyen Age) Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Snooks, G. D. (Graeme Donald), author. LC no. 86005369 ISBN 9780191521423 0191521426 9780191596636 0191596639 1281989487 9781281989482 9786611989484 661198948X

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