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Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian developoment / Frank Ellis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wye studies in agricultural and rural developmentPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521457114 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1  20 ELL
LOC classification:
  • HD1542 .E43 1993
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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
Item type: Reserved Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-298) and indexes.

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

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