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Subsistence agriculture and economic development
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Conference on Subsistence and Peasant Economics (1965 : University of Hawaii)
- Available as
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- Creator
- edited by Clifton R. Wharton, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1969]
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 481 pages illustrations 27 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00059267, ocm00059267
- "Outgrowth of a seminar on subsistence and peasant economics ... sponsored by the Agricultural Development Council, inc. and the Institute of Advanced Projects, Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also issued online.
- Introduction -- The challenge of population and food / John D. Rockefeller, 3rd -- 1. The development problems of subsistence farmers : a preliminary review / Arthur T. Mosher -- 2. Subsistence agriculture : concepts and scope / Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. -- pt. 1. The subsistence farmer, agrarian cultures, and peasant societies -- 3. Social structure and peasant economy : the influence of social structure upon peasant economies / Raymond Firth -- Comment: An economist's view of social structure interaction with the subsistence economy / Abraham M. Weisblat -- Comment: The influence of social structure in the Javanese peasant economy / Selo Soemardjan -- Case study: A semisubsistence village economy in Lower Burma / David E. Pfanner -- 4. The institutional aspects of peasant communities : an analytical view / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Comment: Old and new approaches to peasant economies / Daniel Thorner. Comment: The peasant economies to today's underdeveloped areas / H. Myint -- Case study: New evidence of farmer responses to economic opportunities from the early agrarian history of Western Europe / T.W. Schultz -- 5. Motivations, values, and attitudes of subsistence farmers : toward a subculture of peasantry / Everett M. Rogers -- Comment: A critical view of a subculture of peasantry / Gelia Castillo -- Testing theories concerning a subculture of peasantry / Leonard W. Doob -- Case study: Growth of "economic mindedness" among small farmers in North Sumatra, Indonesia / D.H. Penny -- pt. 2. The economic behavior of subsistence farmers -- 6. Subsistence and commercial family farms : some theoretical models of subjective equilibrium / Chihiro Nakajima -- Comment: Models of the family farm / Raj Krishna -- Comment: On subjective equilibrium of the subsistence farmer / Anthony M. Tang -- Case study: Effects of increasing commercialization of resource use in semi-subsistence farms in South Korea / Jin H. Park -- 7. The subsistence farmer in traditional economics / John W. Mellor -- Comment: The subsistence farmer in traditional economics / Carl K. Eicher -- 8. Supply relationships in peasant agriculture : editor's introduction -- Case study: Supply response and the modernization of peasant agriculture : a study of four major annual crops in Thailand / Jere H. Behrman -- Case study: Supply relations for perennial crops in the less-developed areas / Merrill J. Bateman -- pt. 3. Theories of change and growth -- 9. The early stages of development in a primitive economy : the evolution from subsistence to trade and specialization / E.K. Fisk and R.T. Shand -- Comment: The demand for food, leisure, and economic surpluses / William O. Jones -- Case study: Subsistence and transition among the Ibaloi in the Philippines / Milton L. Barnett -- 10. Development in agrarian economies : The role of agricultural surplus, population pressures, and systems of land tenure / William H. Nicholls -- 11. The role of agriculture in economic development : classical versus neoclassical models of growth / Dale W. Jorgenson -- Comment: Sectoral interdependence, structural transformation, and agricultural growth / Bruce F. Johnston -- Comment: Two sector models and development policy / Vernon W. Ruttan -- pt. 4. Developing subsistence agriculture -- 12. Transforming traditional agriculture : editor's introduction -- Comment: Questions of economic analysis and the consequences of population growth / V.M. Dandekar -- Diagnosis, prediction, and policy formulation / J. Leonard Joy -- Case study: The problems of a subsistence farm economy : the Indian case / M.l. Dantwala -- 13. The execution of agricultural development -- Case study: The Cornell program in Vicos, Peru / Allan B. Holmberg and Henry F. Dobyns -- Case study: The Comilla program in East Pakistan / Syed A. Rahim -- Case study: The ACAR program in Minas Gerais, Brazil / José Paulo Ribeiro and Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. -- Case study: The Rockefeller Foundation program in corn and wheat in Mexico / Delbert T. Myren -- pt. 5. Research priorities on subsistence agriculture -- 14. The issues and a research agenda / Clifton R. Wharton, Jr