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4. Open Fields and Enclosure in England  

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[105] “Review of Williams' Draining of the Somerset Levels,” Journal of Economic History 32 (4, Dec, 1972): 1021-23.
 
[38] “The Persistence of English Common Fields,” in E.L. Jones and William Parker (eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History (Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 73-119.
 
[39] “The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis,” in Jones and Parker, as cited, pp. 123-160.
 
[40] “English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk,” Research in Economic History 1 (Fall 1976): 124-170.
 
[41] “Fenoaltea on Open Fields: A Comment,” Explorations in Economic History  14 (Oct 1977): 402-404.
 
[42] “A Reply to Professor Charles Wilson,” Journal of European Economic History  8 (Spring 1979): 203-207.
 
[43] “Another Way of Observing Open Fields: A Reply to A.R.H. Baker,” Journal of Historical Geography   5 (Oct 1979): 427, 427-29.
 
[127] “Scattering in Open Fields: A Comment on Michael Mazur's Article,” Journal of European Economic History 9 (Spring, 1980): 209-214.
 
[115] “Review of Popkin's The Rational Peasant  and Macfarlane's The Origins of English Individualism,”  Journal of Political Economy, 89 (August 1981): 837-40 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed., Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989)].
 
[129] “Comment on Petras and Havens' 'Peasant Behavior and Social Change--Cooperatives and Individual Holdings.'“  Pp. 226-231 in Clifford S. Russell and N.K. Nicholson, eds.  Public Choice and Rural Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.
 
[44] “Theses on Enclosure,” pp. 56-72 in Papers Presented to the Economic History Society Conference at Canterbury, 1983.  Agricultural History Society.
 
[45] [with John Nash] “Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England,” American Economic Review 74 (Mar 1984): 174-187.
 
[46] (a.) “Conditional Economic History: A Reply to Komlos and Landes,”  Economic History Review  44 (1, Feb 1991): 128-132.
 
 
[191] “Review of Turner's, English Enclosures,”Journal of Economic History  1982
 
[134] “Open Field System,” brief entry in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan U.K., 1987).
 
[47] “The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1300-1815,” in David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 5-51.
 
[48] “The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields.”  Journal of Economic History  51 (2, June 1991): 343-355.
 
[48a.] {“Allen's Enclosure and the Yeoman: The View from Tory Fundamentalism.”} 
 
 
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