Midlands State University Library

Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development /

Ellis, Frank

Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development / created by Frank Ellis - 2nd edition - 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm - Wye studies in agricultural and rural development .

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Peasants -- 2. The neoclassical theory of farm production -- 3. Elements of peasant political economy -- 4. The profit maximising peasant -- 5. The risk-averse peasant -- 6. The drudgery-averse peasant -- 7. The farm household peasant -- 8. The sharecropping peasant -- 9. Women in the peasant household -- 10. Farm size and factor productivity -- 11. Technical change -- 12. Environment -- 13. Peasant economics in perspective

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Peasantry--Developing countries--Economic conditions--Rural conditions
Agriculture
Quality of life --Developing countries


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