Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Preamble How the Farmers Outwitted the Bureaucrats: A True Tale
- 1 Why Country People are not Peasants
- 2 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 1. The Relevance of Economic Inequality
- 3 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 2. The Poor Quality of Official Statistics
- 4 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 3. Historicist Fallacies
- 5 Pause: How can the Impasse be Resolved?
- 6 The Logical Necessity for Economic Inequality within Rural Communities
- 7 The Farming Household: its Defects as a Statistical Unit
- 8 The Need to be Indebted
- 9 The Flexibility of Inheritance Systems
- 10 The Neglect of Farm-Labouring Systems
- 11 Misconceptions about Migration
- 12 The Neglect of Women
- 13 The Sale of Farmland
- 14 Rural Class Stratification?
- Postscript Doomsday Economics
- Glossary and Place Names
- References
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Preamble How the Farmers Outwitted the Bureaucrats: A True Tale
- 1 Why Country People are not Peasants
- 2 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 1. The Relevance of Economic Inequality
- 3 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 2. The Poor Quality of Official Statistics
- 4 The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 3. Historicist Fallacies
- 5 Pause: How can the Impasse be Resolved?
- 6 The Logical Necessity for Economic Inequality within Rural Communities
- 7 The Farming Household: its Defects as a Statistical Unit
- 8 The Need to be Indebted
- 9 The Flexibility of Inheritance Systems
- 10 The Neglect of Farm-Labouring Systems
- 11 Misconceptions about Migration
- 12 The Neglect of Women
- 13 The Sale of Farmland
- 14 Rural Class Stratification?
- Postscript Doomsday Economics
- Glossary and Place Names
- References
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Development Economics on TrialThe Anthropological Case for a Prosecution, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986