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The Rational Choice Paradigm and the Allocation of Agricultural Development Resources
Author(s) -
Moore Mick
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1990.tb00376.x
Subject(s) - resource allocation , agriculture , value (mathematics) , core (optical fiber) , economics , agricultural development , politics , field (mathematics) , public economics , public choice , resource (disambiguation) , environmental economics , political science , computer science , geography , mathematics , market economy , telecommunications , computer network , archaeology , machine learning , pure mathematics , law
Despite its analytic deficiencies and the doctrinaire purposes it has been made to serve, the rational choice approach to political analysis can have considerable explanatory value. Three examples are given of the utility of the sub‐field of rent‐seeking analysis in illuminating how public resources for agricultural development are allocated in developing countries: rural‐urban relations, resource allocation among agricultural services, and irrigation policy.