
Peasant Economics
Farm Households in Agrarian Development
Frank Ellis(Author)
Cambridge University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 25. November 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-521-45711-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
' ... 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 StudiesMore details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Tables, unspecified; 38 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45711-8 (9780521457118)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
03/1988
Cambridge University Press
€19.78
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Content
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.