Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development
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Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development
(Wye studies in agricultural and rural development)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
2nd ed
Available at 27 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography:p. 286-298. - Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Peasants, Economics, Political Economy: 1. Peasants
- 2. The neoclassical theory of farm production
- 3. Elements of peasant political economy
- Part II. The Theory of the Optimising Peasant: 4. The profit-maximising peasant
- 5. The risk-averse peasant
- 6. The drudgery-averse peasant
- 7. The farm household peasant
- 8. The sharecropping peasant
- Part III. Inside the Peasant Household: 9. Women in the peasant household
- Part IV. Further Topics and Overview: 10. Farm size and factor productivity
- 11. Technical change
- 12. Environment
- 13. Peasant economics in perspective
- References
- Index.
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