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' ... 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
Book 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 behavior 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.
Peasant Economics: Farm Households in Agrarian Development (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development),Frank Ellis,Alan Buckwell,Ian Carruthers,Hassan Hakimian,Jonathan Kydd,John Prescott,Cambridge University Press,0521457114,Agricultural Economics,Agriculture - General,Business / Economics / Finance,Developing countries,Economic conditions,Economics - General,Industries - General,Peasantry,Quality of life,Science/Mathematics,Social conditions,Technology,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Development economics,Peasantry--Developing countries--Economic conditions,Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques
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