The Domesday Survey of 1086 provides high quality and detailed information on the outputs, inputs and tax assessments of most English manors. These data can be used to reconstruct the eleventh century Domesday economy. This article describes the Survey, the contemporary institutional...

This book provides a new interpretation of the English economy between 1066 and 1086 by using methods not previously applied to Economic theory and statistical techniques to reappraise the information recorded in the Domesday book. It is the first major reinterpretation of the Domesday economy...

In 1988, Byrnes, Färe, Grosskopf and Lovell define a decomposition of inefficiency differentials into scale and congestion components. This note shows that the decomposition may be sensitive to the order in which the two components are calculated, and, consequently, use of the decomposition may...

It may surprise some readers that frontier methods such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used to assess the productive efficiency of the estates of eleventh century England. This is possible because in 1086, William the Conqueror carried out a comprehensive survey (the Domesday Survey)...

Domesday Book reports the results of a survey of most English manors in 1086. The survey was based on responses to questionnaires, which were then publicly verified in local courts, and contains information on manorial net incomes and resources. In the paper, mathematical programming frontier...