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Development Economics on Trial
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Author(s):
Polly Hill
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June 05 2012
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Cambridge University Press
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9780521321044
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9781139165983
Publication date (Online):
June 05 2012
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June 26 1986
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10.1017/CBO9781139165983
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface
pp. 1
Preamble How the Farmers Outwitted the Bureaucrats: A True Tale
pp. 8
Why Country People are not Peasants
pp. 16
The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 1. The Relevance of Economic Inequality
pp. 30
The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 2. The Poor Quality of Official Statistics
pp. 51
The Vain Search for Universal Generalizations: 3. Historicist Fallacies
pp. 66
Pause: How can the Impasse be Resolved?
pp. 70
The Logical Necessity for Economic Inequality within Rural Communities
pp. 78
The Farming Household: its Defects as a Statistical Unit
pp. 83
The Need to be Indebted
pp. 95
The Flexibility of Inheritance Systems
pp. 106
The Neglect of Farm-Labouring Systems
pp. 122
Misconceptions about Migration
pp. 140
The Neglect of Women
pp. 146
The Sale of Farmland
pp. 155
Rural Class Stratification?
pp. 171
Postscript Doomsday Economics
pp. 182
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