This paper challenges the growing consensus in the literature (Stone, 2005; Dodds, 2007) that medieval English peasants and manorial managers were price responsive in their production decisions.  Using prices of and acreages planted with wheat, barley, and oats of 49 manors held by the bishop of...

Design in the 1980s is big business, but relatively few organisations seem to appreciate the nature and breadth of its potential contribution. To the extent that design has been absorbed into corporate thinking, it has primarily related to product design. There has been little done to...

This paper challenges the growing consensus in the literature (Stone, 2005; Dodds, 2007) that medieval English peasants and manorial managers were price responsive in their production decisions. Using prices of and acreages planted with wheat, barley, and oats on 49 manors held by the bishop of...

As with most programming languages, there can be multiple ways to do a task in Stata. Using modern CPUs with adequate memory, most Stata data processing commands run so quickly on small- or moderate-sized data sets that it is impossible to tell whether one command performs more efficiently than...

This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.’s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen’s (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for...

Stata has a variety of flexible commands for graphing in two dimensions; however, it has few options for graphing in three dimensions. The user-written surface command by Adrian Mander, available from SSC, attempts to fill this gap, providing both 3D wire-frame plots and dropline plots. However,...