Some causes of change in a peasant economy: Interactions between cultivated area, farming population, climate, taxation and technology

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Economic theory is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources in production and consumption; it rests upon a number of basic axioms and postulates from which are derived subsidiary propositions used in constructing models.1 The basic postulate of conventional economics is the existence of a market, and the theory deals with the manner in which flows of goods and services on the market are governed by variations in prices, wages, interest rates, rent and profit. Since, however, many would today agree with Marx, that a market economy is historically a special case, and that conventional economic theory cannot necessarily claim universal relevance,2 we also need a theoretical analysis of non-market economies, a field in which there is as yet little progress to record. This article is intended as a contribution to such a theory. It deals with the interaction between some of the most important variables in a traditional peasant

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