The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam by Samuel L. Popkin

The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam

Samuel L. Popkin

332 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

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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 peasan...

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