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Rent, Differentiation, and the Development of Capitalism among Peasants
Author(s) -
ROSEBERRY WILLIAM
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1976.78.1.02a00040
Subject(s) - peasant , appropriation , capitalism , inefficiency , production (economics) , economics , economic system , product (mathematics) , productive forces , neoclassical economics , market economy , relations of production , political science , microeconomics , law , politics , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics
This essay examines some processual implications of the incorporation of peasant production within the capitalist economic system. It contends that rent, the primary means by which nonpeasants appropriate the surplus product of peasants, is an inefficient method of appropriation. The implications of that inefficiency for differentiation and capitalist development within peasant communities are then examined.