The survivor peasant and the extension of the theory of risk [Elektronische Ressource] / Flavio Pinto Siabato

The Survivor Peasant And the Extension of the Theory of Risk The Survivor Peasant And the Extension of the Theory of Risk FLAVIO PINTO SIABATO The University of Flensburg January, 2009 To the  The Survivor Peasant And The Extension of the Theory of Risk CONTENT PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 10 1 ECONOMIC MOTIVE AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 17 1.1 THE ROLE OF THE MOTIVE IN THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 17 1.2 DEVELOPMENT AS PEASANTS ’ MOTIVE 22 1.2.1 Peasants’ Development: Incontestable but Innocuous 23 1.2.2 Contributions of the Agenda of Development Economics at the Micro Level 26 1.2.3 The Stagnation of the Research Agenda of Development Economics 27 1.3 THE TRAP OF THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 30 1.4 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT MOTIVES 34 1.5 CHAPTER ’S SUMMARY 36 THPART 2: THE PEASANT IN ECONOMICS OF THE 20 CENTURY 38 2 THE EMERGENCE OF THE DEVELOPMENTALIST PEASANT (1900 –1970) 40 TH2.1 LEGACY OF 19 CENTURY ECONOMICS 41 2.1.1 Positive and Normative Economics 41 2.1.2 Other Useful Concepts 42 2.1.3 The Universality of End of Economics 43 2.1.4 Western Merchants and Western Altruists 44 2.