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Author:   Pranab Bardhan
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.831kg
ISBN:  

9780198286196

ISBN 10:   0198286198
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   27 July 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: alternative approaches to the theory of institutions in economic development, Pranab Bardhan; rational peasants, efficient institutions and a theory of rural organization - methodological remarks for development economics, Joseph E.Stiglitz. Part 1 Land and labour: theories of sharecropping, Nirvikar Singh; a comparison of principal-agent and bargaining solutions - the case of tenancy contracts, Clive Bell; contracts with eviction in infinitely repeated principal-agent relationships, Bhaskar Dutta et al; production relations in semi-arid African agriculture, Hans Binswanger et al. Part 2 Credit and interlinked transactions: rural credit markets - the structure of interest rates, exploitation and efficiency, Kaushik Basu; credit and agrarian class structure, Mukesh Eswaran and Ashok Kotwal; credit rationing, tenancy, productivity and the dynamics of inequality, Avishay Braverman and Joseph E.Stiglitz; on choice among creditors and bonded labour contracts, T.N.Srinivasan; some aspects of linked product and credit market contracts among risk-neutral agents, Clive Bell and T.N.Srinivasan; a note on interlinked rural economic arrangements, Pranab Bardhan; interlinkages and the pattern of competition, Debraj Ray and Kunal Sengupta. Part 3 Marketing and insurance: agricultural institutions for insurance and stabilization, David M.Newbery; peasants' risk aversion and the choice of marketing intermediaries and contracts - a bargaining theory of equilibrium marketing contracts, Pinhas Zusman. Part 4 Co-operatives, technology and the State: agricultural producer co-operatives, Louis Putterman; institutional analysis of credit co-operatives, Avishay Braverman and J.Luis Guasch; agrarian structure, technological innovations and the State, Alain de Janvry et al.

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