Research Catalog

Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development

Title
Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian development / Frank Ellis.
Author
Ellis, Frank, 1947-
Publication
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library HD1542 .E43 1988Off-site

Details

Description
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Wye studies in agricultural and rural development
Uniform Title
Wye studies in agricultural and rural development
Subject
  • Peasants > Developing countries > Economic conditions
  • Peasants > Developing countries > Social conditions
  • Quality of life > Developing countries
  • Peasants > Economic conditions
  • Peasants > Social conditions
  • Quality of life
  • Rural conditions
  • Haushalt
  • Landwirtschaft
  • Bauer
  • Landbevölkerung
  • Lebensbedingungen
  • Landbouw
  • Economische situatie
  • Developing countries > Rural conditions
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [242]-249.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0521324467
  • 9780521324465
  • 0521310083
  • 9780521310086
LCCN
87014815
OCLC
  • ocm16085855
  • 16085855
  • SCSB-1196002
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library