The persistence of subsistence agriculture
Subtitle: life beneath the level of the marketplace
By: Tony Waters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780739107683
Subjects: Peasantry; Farmers -- Economic conditions; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Subsistence economy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index
Table of contents: title: Why subsistence peasants are important; title: Theoretical overview : life beneath the level of the marketplace; title: Pre-industrial Scotland, or how Adam Smith got workers into his pin factory; title: America's triumphant subsistence peasantry 1620-1820, or how Daniel Boone ran from Ben Franklin's shopkeepers; title: Squatting, pre-emption, and nowhere left to run : an ascendant market catches Pa Ingalls; title: Modern Tanzania and the long triumph of subsistence farmers; title: The persistent modern Tanzanian subsistence peasant; title: Theoretical implications : understanding economic growth as a risky and recurrent process; title: Modern development and the subsistence peasantry