Words Week VIII

"THE GREED FACTOR"
FACTORS OF PRODUCTION:   LAND, LABOR, CAPITAL
CATTLE / CHATTEL / CAPITAL         PECUS (Cow) / PECUNIA (Money, wealth)
PROFIT              
"RATIONAL ECONOMIC MAN"             RATIO => RAGIONE
LIFE EXPECTANCY
BANAUSIC ARTS            OPUS SERVILIS (servile activities banned on holy days)
GAGES: The use of land as security for loans, either as MORTGAGE OR VIF-GAGE
USURY            2 Fathers            Thomas Aquinas
DEMOGRAPHY (Study of Population Change)
YIELD               WALTER OF HENLEY
QUANTITY THEORY OF MONEY: M\cdot V_T = P_T\cdot T

MARKETS / FAIRS / SHOPS              Humbert de Romans 1270
FORSTALL & REGRATE            Statute of Forestallers, 1300
MULTIPLIER EFFECT (Google it!)               DIVISION OF LABOR
PEASANT (from PAYS = Land, area)            DEMESNE
SERF(DOM)            SERVI CASATI
MALTHUSIAN CHECK  (Thomas Malthus,1766-1834)
ASSART (Take in new land for cultivation)            SLASH AND BURN
"CLASSICAL MANOR"               CHAMPION (Champaign) COUNTRY               HIGH FARMING

ACCOUNTS          DOUBLE ENTRY            INPUT-OUTPUT               PROFIT-AND-LOSS
         Returns to the "Inquest of Sheriffs", 1170         EXCHEQUER PIPE ROLLS
RETURN ON CAPITAL
RODNEY HILTON       MARC BLOCH               WORK TO RULE
(ENGLISH) PEASANTS REVOLT OF 1381            POLL TAXES, 1377, 1381
DE TOCQUEVILLE