1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782843203321

Titolo

The Economic theory of agrarian institutions / / edited by Pranab Bardhan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England], : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-281-97823-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Clarendon Paperbacks

Altri autori (Persone)

BardhanPranab K

Disciplina

338.1/09172/4

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Developing countries

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Industries / Agribusiness

Business & Economics

Agricultural Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1. Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Institutions in Economic Development -- 2. Rational Peasants, Efficient Institutions, and a Theory of Rural Organization: Methodological Remarks for Development Economics -- II. LAND AND LABOUR -- 3. Theories of Sharecropping -- 4. A Comparison of Principal-Agent and Bargaining Solutions: The Case of Tenancy Contracts -- 5. Contracts with Eviction in Infinitely Repeated Principal-Agent Relationships -- 6. Production Relations in Semi-arid African Agriculture -- III. CREDIT AND INTERLINKED TRANSACTIONS -- 7. Rural Credit Markets: The Structure of Interest Rates, Exploitation, and Efficiency -- 8. Credit and Agrarian Class Structure -- 9. Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity, and the Dynamics of Inequality -- 10. On Choice among Creditors and Bonded Labour Contracts -- 11.Some Aspects of Linked Product and Credit Market Contracts among Risk-neutral Agents -- 12. A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements -- 13. Interlinkages and the Pattern of Competition -- IV. MARKETING AND INSURANCE -- 14. Agricultural Institutions for Insurance and Stabilization -- 15. Peasants'



Risk Aversion and the Choice of Marketing Intermediaries and Contracts: A Bargaining Theory of Equilibrium Marketing Contracts -- V. CO-OPERATIVES, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE STATE -- 16. Agricultural Producer Co-operatives -- 17. Institutional Analysis of Credit Co-operatives -- 18. Agrarian Structure, Technological Innovations, and the State -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794208803321

Autore

Dever William G

Titolo

My Nine Lives : Sixty Years in Israeli and Biblical Archaeology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

, : Society of Biblical Literature, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

0-88414-480-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

933.05092

Soggetti

Archaeologists - Israel

Archaeology - Israel

Antiquities

Archaeologists

Archaeology

Biography

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Israel Antiquities

Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia