LEADER 03647oam 2200709 a 450 001 9910953303803321 005 20001012133540.0 010 $a9798216994169 010 $a9780275967826 010 $a0275967824 010 $a9780313019586 010 $a0313019584 024 7 $a10.5040/9798216994169 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007683 035 $a(OCoLC)50648486 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5004421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281586 035 $a(PQKB)10219757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5004421 035 $a(OCoLC)929143515 035 $a(OCoLC)42692294 035 $a(DLC)BP9798216994169BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000133 035 $a(BIP)112706349 035 $a(BIP)6334701 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007683 100 $a19991020e20002024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSubsistence and economic development /$fRonald E. Seavoy 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780275967819 311 08$a0275967816 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [256]-272) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Tables -- Definitions -- Primacy Of Agriculture -- Literacy -- The Political Process -- Failures -- Successes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aSeavoy insists that development economics is a failed discipline because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference between subsistence and commercial social values. Seavoy demonstrates that commercial labor norms are essential for producing assured food surpluses in all crop years and an assured food surplus is essential for sustaining the development process.The commercialization of food production is a political process, as in the term political economy. If peasants have a choice, they will not voluntarily perform commercial labor norms. Central governments must overcome peasant resistance to performing commercial labor norms by various forms of coercion. The most historically effective coercions are deprivation of peasant control of land use by foreclosure and eviction for excessive subsistence debts. Landless peasants are forced to become supervised paid laborers. Coercion is most effective when it is linked to money rewards for peasants who voluntarily transform themselves into yeomen cultivators or farmers. These commercially motivated cultivators and storekeepers become the resident commercializing agents in peasant villages who administer the central government's coercive and inducement policies. Based on extensive examples and field observation, this book is designed for use in courses that explore problems of economic development. Scholars and government policy makers will find the analysis equally provocative. 606 $aSubsistence economy 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aSubsistence economy. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a338.1/8 700 $aSeavoy$b Ronald E$0134231 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953303803321 996 $aSubsistence and economic development$94339214 997 $aUNINA