Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086

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ISBN: 9780415161879 | 0415161878
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Copyright: 3/18/1998

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This fascinating study uses Domesday book data and Management Science methods to examine manorial production efficiency in Medieval Essex in 1086. It reveals unexpected facts about economic history.

List of figures

(2)

List of tables

(2)

Preface

xiii

1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

(14)

1.1 Introduction

(2)

1.2 Background

(3)

1.3 The survey and Domesday Book

(5)

1.4 Economic analysis of Domesday production data

(4)

2 MEASURING EFFICIENCY Theoretical ideas

(21)

2.1 Introduction

(1)

2.2 Brief description of the method

(3)

2.3 Measuring inefficiency: the case of the competitive firm

(5)

2.4 Measuring inefficiency: the Domesday estate

(7)

2.5 Technological assumptions: scale

(4)

2.6 Strong and weak free disposability of resources

(2)

2.7 A decomposition into scale, congestion and technical inefficiency components

(21)

3 ALGEBRAIC METHODS Linear programming

(1)

3.1 Introduction

(1)

3.2 Basic characteristics of linear programming problems

(3)

3.3 The dual

(2)

3.4 The substitutability of resources in production

(1)

3.5 Calculating estate efficiency measures

(7)

3.6 A theorem on shadow prices

(3)

4 EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF DOMESDAY ESSEX LAY ESTATES

(57)

4.1 Introduction

(1)

4.2 Domesday Essex

(4)

4.3 The annual values and manorial resources

(3)

4.4 The data used in the study

(3)

4.5 Manorial efficiency analysis: the efficiency calculations

(1)

4.6 Manorial efficiency analysis assuming constant returns to scale, strong disposability of resources (CS) technology

(8)

4.7 Factors associated with efficiency: descriptive analysis

(16)

4.8 Factors associated with efficiency: statistical analysis

(12)

4.9 Resource shadow prices and slack resources

104

(4)

4.10 Efficiency results for four technologies compared

108

(6)

5 AN ALTERNATIVE NON-FRONTIER EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS

114

(17)

5.1 Introduction

114

(1)

5.2 A review of methods of estimating efficiency

114

(5)

5.3 The effect of ancillary factors on production: a parametric production function approach

119

(12)

6 EXTENSIONS, COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS

131

(30)

6.1 Introduction

131

(1)

6.2 Were Domesday estates run efficiently? The structural efficiency of production on Essex lay estates in 1086

131

(8)

6.3 On the economic cost of the feudal and manorial systems

139

(4)

6.4 The incidence of beneficial hidation: introduction

143

(1)

6.5 Frontier considerations

144

(3)

6.6 Beneficial hidation in Essex in 1086

147

(5)

6.7 Statistical analysis of factors affecting beneficial hidation

152

(4)

6.8 Conclusion

156

(5)

APPENDIX 1

161

(6)

Linear programming input algorithms

161

(6)

APPENDIX 2

167

(25)

Table 1 Essex lay estates, 1086: CS technology measures

167

(17)

Table 2 Essex lay estates, 1086: by CS technology efficiency category

184

(8)

APPENDIX 3

192

(8)

Efficiency measures (u) of estates assuming CS, VS, CW and VW technologies: Essex lay estates, 1086

192

(8)

APPENDIX 4

200

(15)

Beneficial hidation indexes (BHI) for Essex lay estates, 1086

200

(15)

Notes

215

(11)

Bibliography

226

(9)

Index

235

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