Cover of The Moral Economy of the Peasant

Book 1977

The Moral Economy of the Peasant

12 readers

Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Published
1977
  • Peasantry
  • Peasants
  • Social conditions
  • Agriculture
  • Peasant uprisings
  • Economic aspects of Agriculture
  • Rural conditions
  • Campesinato

The distinctive economic behavior of the subsistence-oriented peasant family results from the fact that, unlike a capitalist enterprise, it is a unit of consumption as well as a unit of production.