Synopses & Reviews
A new edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries.
Review
"The book is a good source for the discriminating reader..." Field Crops Research
Review
"...a significant contribution to material on the economic analysis of peasant household agricultural production." International Journal of Agricultural Economics
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"...a succinct and accessible review of an area important to both development and agricultural economics." Journal of Development Studies
Synopsis
A new edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries.
Synopsis
Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change as well as the environment, in a revised and expanded edition of this popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries,
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-298) and indexes.
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.