Development Economics on Trial : The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Preface; Preamble; Appendix; 1. Why country people are not peasants; 2. The vain search for universal generalizations: the relevance of economic inequality; 3. The vain search for universal generalizations: The poor quality of official statistics; 4. The vain search for universal generalizations: historicist fallacies; 5. Pause: how can the impasse be resolved?; 6. The logical necessity for economic inequality within rural communities; 7. The farming household: its defects as a statistical unit; 8. The need to be indebted; 9. The flexibility of inheritance systems; 10. The neglect of farm-labouring systems; 11. Misconceptions about migration; 12. The neglect of women; 13. The sale of farmland; 14. Rural class stratification? Postscript; Glossary and place names; References; Index.