The Conditions of Agricultural Growth
The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure
- 137 pages
- English
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The Conditions of Agricultural Growth
The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure
About this book
This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results. It starts on firm ground rather than from abstract economic theory. Upon its initial appearance, it was heralded as "a small masterpiece, which economic historians should read--and not simply quote"--Giovanni Frederico, Economic History Services.
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth remains a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development. In linking ethnography with economy, developmental studies reached new heights. Whereas "development" had been seen previously as the transformation of traditional communities by the introduction (or imposition) of new technologies, Ester Boserup argues that changes and improvements occur from within agricultural communities, and that improvements are governed not simply by external interference, but by those communities themselves Using extensive analyses of the costs and productivity of the main systems of traditional agriculture, Ester Boserup concludes that technical, economic, and social changes are unlikely to take place unless the community concerned is exposed to the pressure of population growth.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Dynamics of Land Utilization
- 2 The Interdependence of Land Use and Technical Change
- 3 Labour Productivity under Long-Fallow and Short-Fallow Systems
- 4 Carrying Capacity of Land and Productivity of Labour Under Intensive Agriculture
- 5 Population Growth and Working Hours
- 6 The Coexistence of Cultivation Systems
- 7 Diminishing Returns to Labour and Technical Inertia
- 8 The Vicious Circle of Sparse Population and Primitive Techniques
- 9 Systems of Land Use as a Determinant of Land Tenure
- 10 Investment and Tenure in Tribal Communities
- 11 Rural Investment under Landlord Tenure
- 12 Incentives to Investment under Modern Tenure
- 13 The Use of Industrial Input in Primitive Agriculture
- 14 Some Perspectives and Implications
- Index