Peasant Economics Second Edition

by Frank Ellis

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.

328 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 1988

Reviews

[Gill · Rating 4 out of 5]

A critical text on understanding Peasant households, their behavior, and the political and economic theory surrounding their existence.