The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Subtitle: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1977
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780300021905
Subjects: Economics; Rural communities; Business / Economics / Finance; South East Asia; General; Sociology - General; Business & Economics / General; Asia, Southeastern; Peasantry; Southeast Asia
First sentence: The distinctive economic behavior of the subsistence-oriented peasant family results from the fact that, unlike a capitalist enterprise, it is a unit of consumption as well as a unit of production.