Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.
Contents:
Why subsistence peasants are important -- Theoretical overview : life beneath the level of the marketplace -- Pre-industrial Scotland, or How Adam Smith got workers into his pin factory -- America's triumphant subsistence peasantry 1620-1820, or How Daniel Boone ran from Ben Franklin's shopkeepers -- Squatting, pre-emption, and nowhere left to run : an ascendant market catches Pa Ingalls -- Modern Tanzania and the long triumph of subsistence farmers -- The persistent modern Tanzanian subsistence peasant -- Theoretical implications : understanding economic growth as a risky and recurrent process -- Modern development and the subsistence peasantry.
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