The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy, China 1920-1940
The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy, China 1920-1940

Author: Thomas B. Wiens

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0429768648

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The objectives of this study, first published in 1982, are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’, an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector, both traditional in techniques and institutions, and a small but growing modern industrial sector.

Peasant Economics
Peasant Economics

Author: Frank Ellis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-11-25

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521457118

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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.

Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru
Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru

Author: Adolfo Figueroa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521101608

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This study analyses the functioning of the peasant economy in Peru in the context of the present predominantly capitalist system. The central themes are the economic relationships of the peasantry to the rest of the economy of the country and the role of the peasant economy in the entire system, together with the changes that have taken place in that role over time. These themes are investigated by means of a study in detail of a sample of peasant communities in the most traditional and backward region of Peru, the southern sierra. The historical process has generated in Peru one of the most extreme cases of inequality, rural poverty and cultural duality. Nowhere else does the notion of 'economic duality' seem more applicable. Thus an investigation of the case of Peru has methodological value for the understanding of the peasant economy throughout Latin America, and the results of this survey have important implications for the whole region.

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy, China 1920-1940
The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy, China 1920-1940

Author: Thomas B. Wiens

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0429768656

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The objectives of this study, first published in 1982, are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’, an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector, both traditional in techniques and institutions, and a small but growing modern industrial sector.

Peasants and Governments
Peasants and Governments

Author: David Bevan

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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The first of two companion volumes on trade shocks in controlled economies, the authors here address the relationship between micro and macroeconomics through analysis of an external macro shock--the coffee price boom--on two developing countries whose similarities end at the level of governmental organization and objectives. Using microeconomic analysis and household survey data, they focus on crop prices, access to consumer goods, and provision of public services in Kenya and Tanzania.

The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions
The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions

Author: Pranab Bardhan

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1989-07-27

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0191521493

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This volume breaks new ground in the economic theory of institutions. The contributors show how some of the tools of advanced economic theory can usefully contribute to an understanding of how institutions operate. They show how sound theoretical analysis can in fact enable economists to reach conclusions which will help practitioners avoid many pitfalls in the formation and implementation of development policies, both within individual countries and in the context of international aid.