Economic Theorists, Reasoning Villagers
Amartya Sen, 18 August 1983
Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village
by C.J. Bliss and N.H. Stern.
Oxford, 340 pp., £15, October 1982,0 19 828419 5 Show More
by C.J. Bliss and N.H. Stern.
Oxford, 340 pp., £15, October 1982,
“... that anthropologists do often enough (or are supposed to do), but economists seldom try. Bliss and Stern not only provide a fascinating account of how the village economy of Palanpur functions, but also how their findings tie up with economic theory. The treatment of economic theory in this book is not confined, however, to interpreting or analysing the ... ”