Table of Contents:
  • 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 optimizing peasant
  • 5. The risk-averse peasant
  • 6. The drudgery-averse peasant
  • 7. The farm household peasant
  • 8. The sharecropping peasant
  • Comparative summary
  • 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
  • Author index
  • Subject index