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...
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 ab...
Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates...
Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The autho...
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government--abetted by mass media--that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement by a realistic outlook.
The Vanishing American Dream posits solutions to get America back on the right track. Abernethy sees population growth driven by mass immigration as a major cause of economic and cultural changes that have been detrimental to most Americans. The environment...
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government--abetted by mass media--that serves...
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government--abetted by mass media--that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement by a realistic outlook.
The Vanishing American Dream posits solutions to get America back on the right track. Abernethy sees population growth driven by mass immigration as a major cause of economic and cultural changes that have been detrimental to most Americans. The environment...
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government--abetted by mass media--that serves...
