Paperback • 1977 • English

Moral Economy of the Peasant

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By James C. Scott

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James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household-subsistence-at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation, the desire to own land even at some cost in terms of income, relationships with other people, and relationships with institutions, including the state. Once the centrality of the subsistence problem is recogni...Show more

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9780300021905

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

1977

Language

English

Original title

Moral Economy of the Peasant

Format

Paperback

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