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Examines the rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France. View of historians on early industrial work; What Montgolfier output registers reveal.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the evolution of the revenue farms in France since the 1660s.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on John Law's system of public and private finance in France between 1716 and 1720.

Discusses studies made concerning the economic history in Europe. Effect of cartel on the demand and supply system of coal trade in London, England between 1770-1845; Discussion on demand elasticities; Line of reasoning advanced in the study of sharecropping growth in France between 1500 and 1700.

Discusses studies made on the economic history of Europe. Issues concerning Russian agrarian reform and economic conditions of peasants from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries; Interpretation on the severity of agricultural impoverishment in Russia; Role of demographic factors in the pattern of landownership in Combraille, France during the late nineteenth century.

Investigates the relationship between income and fertility in a town in Burgundy, France from 1744 to 1779. Increase in income over the life cycle; Decline in marital fertility; Probability density function.

Uses wage gaps between farm and city to assess whether industrialization in late nineteenth-century France was choked off by peasants' alleging reluctance to move. The landless agricultural labor force; The size of wage gaps; The wage gap trend, rural emigration, and urbanization.

Explains the growth of sharecropping in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France using a simple economic model of contract choice. Impact of sharecropping on peasants' social status; Implications of sharecropping for the economic condition of the countryside.

Examines the spread of sharecropping that followed a wave of investment in agriculture in 16th- and 17th-century France. Economic theories that explains the prevalence of sharecropping arrangements in the contemporary world; Implications of the trend.

Attempts to explain the diffusion of intensive mixed husbandry in Northern France from 1815-1840. Role of soil type in the allocation of land to leguminous fodder crops; Implications of the calculations conducted.

Comments on a series of articles focusing on economic history. Assessment of coal mining in France during the 19th century; Causes and consequences of foreign firms operating in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century.