The Logic of poverty
Subtitle: the case of the Brazilian Northeast
By: edited by Simon Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, Simon.
Series: Routledge direct editions
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Routledge Kegan & Paul
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Social structure -- Brazil, Northeast -- Congresses.; Brazil, Northeast -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.; Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Glasgow in April 1975.
Table of contents: title: Rural structure, surplus mobilisation, and modes of production in a peripheral region / D.E. Goodman; title: Hunger in the Northeast / Jaime Reis; title: The hungry imagination / Colin Henfrey; title: On the relationship between the subsistence sector and the market economy in the Parnaíba Valley / Regis de Castro Andrade; title: Stagnant peasant capitalism / Simon Mitchell; title: Innovation and social structure / Anthony Hall; title: Irrigation in the Brazilian Northeast / Anthony Hall; title: State and society in northeastern Brazil / Francisco de Oliveira.