Peasants, Capitalism, and (Ir)rationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3035804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Bernal (0000-0002-4623-2275, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 792-810 |
| Publication date | 1994-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a00070 |
| OpenAlex | W2148722793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article takes as its starting point the debate over whether or not peasants operate according to capitalist rationality. I argue that neither the assumption that peasants operate according to noncapitalist principles, nor the assumption that peasant households operate like capitalist enterprises can account for the behavior of peasants. The analysis of subsistence production in a Sudanese peasant community reveals that market and nonmarket resources, and wage and unwaged labor are inextricably enmeshed. This suggests that we need to rethink not only our notions of «peasant economy,» but also some of our assumptions about capitalism. [peasants, markets, capitalism, economic rationality, subsistence production
Agriculture · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Factor market · Market economy · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Nonmarket forces · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Rationality · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Wage · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |