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... with varying degrees of success. The central theme of this body of research, however, has been the process of household decision-making. The Chayanovian analysis of peasant economics and cognitive decision model are two seemingly unrelated strands in this domain. This monograph aims at integrating the two...

... contemporary debates on agrarian differentiation in Southeast Asia within the classical tradition of Marxist and Chayanovian sociology. 1084 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES White's equation of "differentiation" with "surplus extraction" or "the ways in which different groups . . . gain access to the products...

... substantiated some issues beyond doubt, but collided over many others and, in some cases, attempted to integrate differing methodologies, all of them with varying degrees of success. The central theme of this body of research, however, has been the process of household decision-making. The Chayanovian analysis...

... of such intensification? And who pays it? In asking these questions, we return to the questions of entitlement and enfranchisement, inequality and dependence. Clearly Maclachlan's argument applies mainly to the 60 percent of Yaavahalli's households that are self-sufficient Chayanovian households; it applies less...

...). The second type of explanation emphasizes characteristics of the farmers themselves, most notably the organization and Chayanovian calculus of the peasant household, often said to make small farmers particularly efficient or resilient James F. Eder is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University...

... diminishing returns to labor involutionary in China was that they declined to an exceptionally low, perhaps even sub-subsistence level, as in the Chayanovian model of a peasant economy; labor could be mobilized for such minimal returns only because it had no opportunity cost.24 I have already noted in my book...