Peasant economics: farm households and agrarian development. Second edition

This book was first published in 1988, and was abstracted as 88V/2292. The revised and expanded 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 technical change. For these and other topics household economic behaviour represents the outcome of the 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. -Publisher