Development Economics On Trial: The Anthropological Case For A Prosecution

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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.