The political economy of productivity : Thai agricultural development, 1880-1975 / / David Feeny

• Autore: Feeny David <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver : , : University of British Columbia Press, , 1982
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.1/09593
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Economic aspects - Thailand - History
• Soggetto geografico: Thailand Economic conditions
• Note generali: "... an extensively revised version of a doctoral thesis submitted to the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."--Prelim.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Theory of Technical and Institutional Change -- Economic Change in Thailand, 1880 to 1940 -- The Technology of Rice Production, 1880-1940 -- Institutional Change: Irrigation Policy -- From Property Rights in Man to Property Rights in Land -- Technical and Institutional Change in Thai Agriculture, 1880 to 1940 -- Post-World War II Thai Agricultural Development -- Economic Data -- A General Equilibrium Model with Two Goods and Three Factors -- Explanations of the Yield Decline in the Central Plain, 1920-21 to 1941 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The economic history of Thailand between 1880 and 1975 contrasts sharply with the development experiences of other Third World countries. Between the opening of trade in 1850 and 1941, when war halted economic activity, Thailand became a major exporter of rice in the world market. Although conditions for further growth seemed highly favourable, Thailand's rapid integration into the world economy failed to improve living standards, and rice yields actually declined. In examining the causes of the underdevelopment of Thai agriculture over the last 100 years, Feeny introduces supply and demand models of technical and institutional change to analyse why the rice export boom did not result in more development. This book, much of which is based on primary research in the Thai National Archives, is one of the few quantitative economic histories of a less developed country.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political economy of productivity
• ISBN: 1-283-22670-7; 9786613226709; 0-7748-5776-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780548603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asian studies monographs ; ; 3.