...David E. Martin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 David Martin is Lecturer in Economic History in the University of Sheffield. The rehabilitation of the peasant proprietor in nineteenth-century economic thought: a comment David E. Martin In a section...

...Winston C. Bush Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Population and Mills’ Peasant- Proprietor Economy Winston C. Bush AMONGthe classical economists “the advantage . . . of small properties in land” was “one of the most...

...Clive J. Dewey Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The rehabilitation of the peasant proprietor in nineteenth-century economic thought Clive J. Dewey As the eighteenth century drew to its close, an insular consensus approved the existing agrarian...

...Federico D’Onofrio In this contribution I examine the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the conditions of peasants in the southern provinces and Sicily, usually called the Faina inquiry (1906–9). I focus on how the task of observing the conditions of the peasant was defined, how it was entrusted...

... of the economic and social merits of what he called the grande culture-large commercial farms worked by hired labor-and a nearly unbounded optimism on the economic and social merits of peasant pro- prietors hip. ’ Mill was convinced that peasant proprietors work harder than hired ag...

... History of Political Economy 24:4 (1992) peasants, . . . paradoxically, Chayanov’s fundamental methods and in- sights may prove particularly enriching for a world with fewer peas- ants and fewer ‘classical’ industrial proletarians while the subject of actual concern, the Russian peasantry, has...

... of capital . In Tarbuck 1972. Bukharin , N. I. 1982a . A new revelation concerning the Soviet economy, or how to destroy the worker-peasant bloc. In Day 1982. Bukharin , N. I. 1982b . Notes of an economist. In Day 1982. Bukharin , N. I. 1982c . The road to socialism and the worker...

... (1974): 133-34; C. J. Dewey, “The Rehabilita- tion of the Peasant Proprietor in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought,” History of Political Economy 6 (1974): 23-29; J. K. Ingram, A History of Political Economy (London, 1923), pp. 139-42; H. W. Spiegel, The Growth of Economic Thought (Englewood...

...., Book Reviews 697 Akerlof’s “lemons but it is hard to see anything so sophisticated in Rousseau’s position. He also claimed that the market is stacked against peasants, a claim that Fridén calls “the iron law of peasant misery.” Peasants were indeed taxed very heavily in France...

... welfare of rural populations. This transformation was crucial wherever a majority of peasants were kept in a revolutionary situation by the shortsightedness of a small minority of landholders. He maintained that his policy proposals could be transferred from one country to another. It was this fundamental...

.... ____. 1963 . The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the Making of the New. Journal of Economic History 23.2 : 151 -84. ____. 1964 . The Poor Law Report Reexamined. Journal of Economic History 24.2 : 229 -45. Cliffe-Leslie, T. E. 1874 . Review of A Plea for Peasant Proprietors, by William Thornton...

... about the peasant commune (obshchim), agricultural reform policies, lopsided industrial development of Russia (large modern factories and a big handicrafts sector, with little in between). He quotes a statistical comparison with the United States, from the cal- culations of one Sergovsky...

.... 1987 . Sources of Peasant Consciousness in South-East Asia: A Survey. Social History 12.2 : 193 –211. Fall, B. B. 1966 . Hell in a Very Small Place . Philadelphia: Lippincott. Feierabend, I. K., and R. L. Feierabend. 1966 . Aggressive Behaviors within Polities, 1948–1962: A Cross-National...

... was exceptional was that in Russia “communal land must be redistributed during the census year,” that is, periodic real- location within the peasant commune was directly linked to observations of population growth (Haxthausen [1847] 1972, 83). One of the earliest examples of more focused governmental...

... explanation, for in them feudal landlords were not found, and in addition slaveholders were not found in the first three. In the Asiatic ‘form’ (which Marx did not geographically limit to Asia) the land was possessed by the peasants or by the peasant villages (Marx recognized some variation...

... to impose the English land systemon India—had been a disaster for India’s peasants. But at this juncture Mill was uninterested in land reform. He had already begun work on the Principles of Political Economy when the en- tire Irish potato crop was devastated in 1846. The famine that followed provoked...

... of rent. Accordingly, he descrilbed two broad classes of rents-peasant rents and farmer rents. Peasant Rents Though (he did not make the point explicit, Jones’s essential finding was that varying degrees of market imperfection largely determined the rent paid by the peasant. In Europe...

...: Brown, Green, and Longmans. ____. 1848 . A Plea for Peasant Proprietors . London: J. Murray and Co. ____. 1869 . Indian Railway Reform. Westminster Review , n.s., 36 (July): 1 -36. ____. 1870 . On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible Future...

... 2005: Table 23). 18. China had been a country with high interest rates (20 33.33 percent) since the Han dynasty (200 BC to 220 AD) (Homer and Sylla 2005: 618 19). In the Ming dynasty (1368 1644), in order to control land annexation and prevent peasants revolt, the Hongwu Emperor legislated...

... of Peasant Economy. Homewood, Ill.: Irwin. Etzioni, A. 1991 . Socio-Economics: A Budding Challenge. In Socio-Economics: Towards a New Synthesis , edited by A. Etizoni and P. R. Lawrence, 3 -7. New York: Sharpe. Ferry, J. W. 1960 . A History of the Department Store. London: Macmillan. Firth...