... the dominance of agriculture, which generated the largest share of nationalincome. It also was the leading sector, as the fluctuations of harvests hada strong impact upon the rest of the economy.49 Of ... the monetization of production factors, and the commod-ification of labor, were not drastically different from those of earlier cen-turies, and the eighteenth century was rather the zenith of ... eighteenth-century France, the top decile of the population received one half of total incomes, and the 70 percent at the bottom, one quarter (Morrisson and Snyder).As for technology and equipment, they were...