Title: The agrarian question and reformism in Latin America /
Authors: De Janvry, Alain
Date: 1981
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Laws of Motion in the Center-Periphery Structure: The Underlying Forces -- Evolution of Thought on Unequal Development -- The Dialectic Between Production and Circulation -- Contradictions of Accumulation in Articulated Economies -- Contradictions of Accumulation in Disarticulated Economies -- Dependency, Class Structure, and Social Disarticulation -- Market-Widening and Market-Deepening -- Mechanisms of Surplus Transfer Between Center and Periphery -- Industrial and Financial Imperialism -- Surplus Transfer Through Trade -- Unequal Exchange -- Unequal Trade -- Unequal Rewards in the Formation of International Prices -- Accumulation in the Center-Periphery Structure and the Current Crisis -- Agrarian Crisis in Latin America: The Facts -- Integration of Latin American Agriculture into the National and World Economies -- Patterns of Growth and Stagnation -- The Rise and Logic of Functional Dualism -- The Contradictions of Functional Dualism -- Transformation of the Agrarian Structure and the Peasantry -- The Nature and Future of the Peasantry -- The Marxist Classics -- Peasantry as a Specific Type of Economy -- An Alternative Conceptualization of Peasants -- Roads to the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture -- Modes of Production, Social Classes, and Types of Farm Enterprises -- A Typology of Farm Enterprises -- Empirical Characterization of the Rural Class Structure -- Dynamics of Class Differentiation -- Empirical Characterization of Class Differentiation: Global Data.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agriculture and state--Latin America.; Land reform--Latin America.