Ebook: The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam
Author: Samuel L. Popkin
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- Year: 1979
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Edition: First
- Language: English
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Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of its members.
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