The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure

ISBN-13: 9781138537187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 137 str.

Ester Boserup

Opis

This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results

Spis treści

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 CO-EXISTENCE 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

O autorze

Ester Boserup