1st Edition
The Logic of Poverty The Case of the Brazilian Northeast
Edited By Simon Mitchell
Copyright 1981
201 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
201 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1981, The Logic of Poverty consists of eight essays that share at least one assumption: that Northeast Brazil provides a startling example of inhumane economic development. The contributors have all worked in the area, and know it at first hand. They look at rural structure and the role of the unemployed ‘reserve army’, the state of the sugar industry, the ineffectiveness of... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Rural structure, surplus mobilisation and modes of production in a peripheral region D. E. Goodman 3. Hunger in the Northeast Jaime Reis 4. The hungry imagination Colin Henfrey 5. On the relationship between the subsistence sector and the market economy in the Parnaiba valley Regis de Castro Andrade 6. Stagnant peasant capitalism Simon Mitchell 7. Innovation and social structure Anthony Hall 8. Irrigation in the Brazilian Northeast Anthony Hall 9. State and society in Northeastern Brazil Francisco de Oliviera
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Edited by Simon Mitchell
