To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Environmental & Social Studies  Natural Resource Use & Depletion  Agriculture & Food

Peasant Economics Farm Households amd Agrarian Development

By: F Ellis
309 pages, illustrations, tables
Peasant Economics
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Peasant Economics ISBN: 9780521457118 Edition: 2 Paperback Nov 1993 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £42.99
    #33038
  • Peasant Economics ISBN: 9780521310086 Edition: 2 Paperback Mar 1988 Out of Print #8034
  • Peasant Economics ISBN: 9780521324465 Edition: 2 Hardback Mar 1988 Out of Print #8033
Selected version: £42.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in Peasant Economics with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.

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 Optimising Peasant
4. The profit-maximising peasant
5. The risk-averse peasant
6. The drudgery-averse peasant
7. The farm household peasant
8. The sharecropping peasant

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
Index

Customer Reviews

By: F Ellis
309 pages, illustrations, tables
Media reviews

"[...] a significant contribution to material on the economic analysis of peasant household agricultural production."
- International Journal of Agricultural Economics

"[...] a succinct and accessible review of an area important to both development and agricultural economics."
- Journal Development Studies


 

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides