| Titre | La production paysanne. Eléments pour une nouvelle économique | |
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| Auteur | Michel Verdon | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 107-108, 1987 Paysages | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études et recherches |
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| Page | 215-242 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peasant Production : Points for a New Economics
The rural history of 18th and 19th century Quebec is similar to that of the American Northeast in ways that recall French rural history and raise the same theoretical problems. How to understand peasant behaviors, their conservatism and reluctance about the marketplace ? A formalist explanation, inspired by neoclassical economics, supposes a generalized commercial rationality and explains peasant behaviors in terms of failures and imperfections of the market. On the contrary, an antiformalist explanation assumes the existence of a noncommercial peasant rationality. Whereas the formalists are able to derive, through corollaries contained in the market situation, a set of behaviors that reflect this commercial rationality, the antiformalists are unable to ground their observations in axioms equal to those of neoclassical economics. They sometimes talk about Chayanov, Marx or even Kroeber, and are satisfied with postulating an autarkic or domestic orientation of peasant production. This article aims at : outlining such axioms ; deducing, from a narrow definition of the social organization of peasant property and production, the major characteristics of a specifically peasant rationality, and thus deriving nearly all the facts that have been pointed out in historiographical accounts, whether by formalists or antiformalists. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1987_num_107_1_3212 |
