Robert C. Allen
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198282969
- eISBN:
- 9780191684425
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198282969.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses an introduction to English agriculture during the sixteenth century. The chapter also focuses on the subject of agrarian fundamentalism, which is a system that links the First ...
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This chapter discusses an introduction to English agriculture during the sixteenth century. The chapter also focuses on the subject of agrarian fundamentalism, which is a system that links the First Industrial Revolution, modern agrarian institutions, improved farming, and increase in inequality. The development of the practice of agriculture in England from the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century is also discussed in this chapter.Less
This chapter discusses an introduction to English agriculture during the sixteenth century. The chapter also focuses on the subject of agrarian fundamentalism, which is a system that links the First Industrial Revolution, modern agrarian institutions, improved farming, and increase in inequality. The development of the practice of agriculture in England from the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century is also discussed in this chapter.
Dik Roth and Linden Vincent
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198082927
- eISBN:
- 9780199082247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082927.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter discusses the politics of groundwater markets and its interrelation with social differentiation and class–caste relations. Based on an intensive social anthropological study of a village ...
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This chapter discusses the politics of groundwater markets and its interrelation with social differentiation and class–caste relations. Based on an intensive social anthropological study of a village in north Gujarat, it investigates the factors that shaped unrestrained use of groundwater and the responses of various social groups. These factors range from the issues of access and control over productive resources such as land and groundwater, a local ecology that endorsed groundwater development and institutions like groundwater markets, and sharecropping that mediated the change process. The chapter uses a triadic framework of agrarian institutions, ecological variables in agrarian change, and the domain of the state in influencing nature and society. Further, it locates the context of the study in the larger political economy of Gujarat where dominant classes have determined differential class-based access to productive resources through sources of legitimacy and power.Less
This chapter discusses the politics of groundwater markets and its interrelation with social differentiation and class–caste relations. Based on an intensive social anthropological study of a village in north Gujarat, it investigates the factors that shaped unrestrained use of groundwater and the responses of various social groups. These factors range from the issues of access and control over productive resources such as land and groundwater, a local ecology that endorsed groundwater development and institutions like groundwater markets, and sharecropping that mediated the change process. The chapter uses a triadic framework of agrarian institutions, ecological variables in agrarian change, and the domain of the state in influencing nature and society. Further, it locates the context of the study in the larger political economy of Gujarat where dominant classes have determined differential class-based access to productive resources through sources of legitimacy and power.
Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198773719
- eISBN:
- 9780191595929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198773714.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Studies the economics behind the agrarian institutional arrangement of interlinked transactions. First, a model of credit‐labour interlinkage in which a landlord‐employer provides a loan to a peasant ...
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Studies the economics behind the agrarian institutional arrangement of interlinked transactions. First, a model of credit‐labour interlinkage in which a landlord‐employer provides a loan to a peasant in the slack season as part of a contract that entails the latter working for him at a discount in the peak season is presented. This contract enables the landlord to extract the entire consumer surplus even though the effective interest rate charged is the landlord's opportunity cost of credit. Next, a model in which a lender‐trader obtains a farmer‐borrower's crop at a pre‐agreed price discount in exchange for providing the latter with capital, with the interlinkage in this case providing a way out of the credit market imperfection faced by the farmer, is studied. The last section of the chapter furthers this discussion on efficiency and surplus extraction by looking at some other studies of interlinked transactions, including a model of sharecropping‐cum‐credit under production uncertainty.Less
Studies the economics behind the agrarian institutional arrangement of interlinked transactions. First, a model of credit‐labour interlinkage in which a landlord‐employer provides a loan to a peasant in the slack season as part of a contract that entails the latter working for him at a discount in the peak season is presented. This contract enables the landlord to extract the entire consumer surplus even though the effective interest rate charged is the landlord's opportunity cost of credit. Next, a model in which a lender‐trader obtains a farmer‐borrower's crop at a pre‐agreed price discount in exchange for providing the latter with capital, with the interlinkage in this case providing a way out of the credit market imperfection faced by the farmer, is studied. The last section of the chapter furthers this discussion on efficiency and surplus extraction by looking at some other studies of interlinked transactions, including a model of sharecropping‐cum‐credit under production uncertainty.
