
Agrarian Structure and Economic Underdevelopment
K. Basu(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2001
Book
Hardback
108 pages
978-0-415-26979-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kaushik Basu (Cornell University) explores the relation between agrarian institutions and economic development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-26979-7 (9780415269797)
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Content
1 Introduction; 1.1 Antecedents; 1.2 Prospectus; 2 Stagnation and Development; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Market equilibrium and suboptimality; 2.3 The persistence of poverty; 2.4 Agrarian stagnation: the technical constraints; 2.5 Tenure and technology; 2.6 The law, property rights and stagnation; 2.7 The optimality of institutions; 3 Theories of Agricultural Land Tenure and Land Markets; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Tenancy; 3.3 The land market; 4 Labour Market Institutions and Wage Formation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Surplus labour and open unemployment; 4.3 Efficiency wage, unemployment and two-tier labour markets; 4.4 Freedom and bondage; 5 The Credit Market; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Institutional credit; 5.3 Market fragmentation; 5.4 Shortages and rationing; 5.5 Nonlinear pricing and the structure of interest rates; 6 Interlinkage and Triadic Interactions; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Efficiency and exploitation; 6.3 Interlinkage; 6.4 Triadic interactions; 6.5 A comment on coercion; 7 Conclusion; Notes to sections; References; Index;