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Subsistence and economic development / Ronald E. Seavoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seavoy, Ronald E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subsistence economy.
- Economic development.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
- Summary:
- Shows why economic development is primarily a political process.
- Contents:
- Economic Development 2
- Labor Theory of Value 6
- Indolence 7
- Subsistence Social Values 8
- Monetization 15
- Exchange Commodities 16
- Commercial Social Values 18
- Marxian Economics 19
- Income, Wages, Employment 21
- Poverty 23
- Class 27
- 2 Primacy of Agriculture 31
- Necessity of Commercialization 31
- Reflective Lens of Development Economists 34
- Stratified Peasantry 39
- Yeomen 42
- Farmers 43
- Historical Origins 44
- Plantations 47
- Confused Analysis
- Lack of Comparisons 48
- Transition 51
- Commercial Land Tenures 52
- Agents of Commercialization 55
- Agricultural Subsidies 59
- Birthrates 61
- 3 Literacy 66
- Subsistence/Commercial Interface 67
- Adult Literacy Campaigns 70
- Primary Schooling 74
- Education and Development Economists 76
- Human Capital 79
- 4 The Political Process 85
- Panacea of Free Markets 85
- Governing Elites and Agricultural Policies 88
- Compulsion 93
- Enforcement 94
- Taxation 95
- Land Tenure 97
- Contract Law 105
- Protection 108
- Peasant Rebellions 109
- Armed Forces 112
- 5 Failures 117
- Sub-Saharan Africa 118
- Food Production and Population Increase 118
- Strategies of Labor Transfer 121
- Migrant Laborers 128
- Harvest Sharing 141
- India 145
- Hindu Caste System 145
- 6 Successes 154
- Republic of South Africa 155
- South African Peasantry 155
- Difaqane 156
- Mobilizing African Agricultural Labor 157
- Commercial Intrusion 161
- Anglo-Afrikaans War, 1899-1902 163
- 1913 Land Law 167
- Migratory Labor 173
- Independence 176
- Coercive Labor Policies 178
- Commercializing Food Production 180
- Poor Whites 183
- Literacy 187
- Mechanization of Cultivation 195
- Japan 198
- Political Unification 198
- Taxation and Land Tenure 201
- Stratified Peasantry 205
- Famines 210
- Peasant Rebellions 212
- Commercializing Process 215
- Meiji Restoration 222
- Literacy 230
- Preserving the Statusquo 234
- Demography 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275967816
- 0275967824
- OCLC:
- 42692294
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