Peasant Economics Second Edition: Farm Households in Agrarian Development (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development)

Peasant Economics Second Edition: Farm Households in Agrarian Development (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development)

by ELLIS (Author), Ellis (Author)

Synopsis

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.

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Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 328
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 25 Nov 1993

ISBN 10: 0521457114
ISBN 13: 9780521457118
Book Overview: A new edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries.

Media Reviews
' ... a significant contribution to material on the economic analysis of peasant household agricultural production.' International Journal of Agricultural Economics
' ... a succinct and accessible review of an area important to both development and agricultural economics.' Journal Development Studies
The book is a good source for the discriminating reader... Field Crops Research
...a significant contribution to material on the economic analysis of peasant household agricultural production. International Journal of Agricultural Economics
...a succinct and accessible review of an area important to both development and agricultural economics. Journal of Development Studies