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The theory of peasant economy

Chayanov A V

The theory of peasant economy - London The University of Wisconsin Press 1986 - 315P xxv PB 20cm

Agriclulture - Economic Aspects Agricultural Labourers Peasants - Soviert Union -

Contents

Foreword to the Second World Series by Teodor Shanin vii
Introduction by Viktor Danilov xi
Author's Comment xxxvii
1 The Processes and the Concept of Vertical Concentration in the Rural Economy: Peasant Co-operation as an Alternative 1
2 The Theory of Differential Optima and Co-operatives in the Peasant Economy 24
3 Credit in the Peasant Economy 53
4 Co-operative Credit Societies 72
5 The Peasant Family's Money Economy and its Organization on Co-operative Principles 91
6 The Basic Principles of the Co-operative Organization of Commodity Circulation 115
7 The Organization of Co-operative Marketing and Reprocessing Enterprises 131
8 Machinery Users' Associations 147
9 Dairy Farming Reprocessing and Cattle-rearing Co-operatives 162
10 Peasant Co-operation for the Purpose of Cattle-rearing 183 vi Contents
11 Co-operative Insurance 187
12 Associations Concerned with Land 196
13 Collective Farms or 'Total Agricultural Co-operation' 207
14 The Basic Principles of Organization of Agricultural Co-operatives 224


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