The Logic of poverty : the case of the Brazilian Northeast /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mitchell, Simon
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Series:	Routledge direct editions
Subjects:	Brazil, Northeast > Economic conditions > Congresses. Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions > Congresses. Social structure > Brazil, Northeast > Congresses. Nordeste (Brésil) > Conditions sociales > Congrès. Nordeste (Brésil) > Conditions économiques > Congrès. Structure sociale > Nordeste (Brésil) > Congrès. Economic history. Social conditions Social structure. Northeast Brazil. Armut Brasilien Sociologia Rural. Economic conditions > Brazil > Northeastern Region. Rural conditions > Brazil > Northeastern Region. Social conditions > Brazil > Northeastern Region. Agrarian structure > Brazil > Northeastern Region. Agricultural economics > Brazil > Northeastern Region. Brésil > Conditions économiques. Conference papers and proceedings.

Table of Contents:

Rural structure, surplus mobilisation, and modes of production in a peripheral region / D.E. Goodman
Hunger in the Northeast / Jaime Reis
The hungry imagination / Colin Henfrey
On the relationship between the subsistence sector and the market economy in the Parnaíba Valley / Regis de Castro Andrade
Stagnant peasant capitalism / Simon Mitchell
Innovation and social structure / Anthony Hall
Irrigation in the Brazilian Northeast / Anthony Hall
State and society in northeastern Brazil / Francisco de Oliveira.