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Ellis, Frank

Peasant economics : farm households and agrarian developoment / Frank Ellis. - 2nd ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. - xviii, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Wye studies in agricultural and rural development .

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

ISBN: 9780521457118

LCCN: 94153439

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Peasants--Economic conditions.--Developing countries
Peasants--Social conditions.--Developing countries
Quality of life--Developing countries.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Developing countries--Rural conditions.

Dewey Class. No.: 338.1091 ELL