Accounting for the Poor

Townsend, R.M. (2013) Accounting for the Poor. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. pp. 1-13.

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Abstract

Economists and other social scientists have long tried to understand the nature of poverty and how poor people make decisions. For example, T.W. Schultz, a Nobel Laureate, former professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and former president of the American Economic Association, spent his career working in development and agricultural economics. In his 1980 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Schultz suggests that there is some accounting for the behavior of the poor in agriculture. “Farmers, the world over, in dealing with costs, returns, and risks are calculating economic agents.Within their small, individual, allocative domain they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are” (Schultz 1980).

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Subjects: Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics
Divisions: General
Depositing User: Mr Siva Shankar
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2013 11:04
Last Modified: 13 Aug 2013 11:04
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aat022
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/11443

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