The Unfinished Narodnik Agenda: Chayanov, Marxism, and Marginalism Revisited

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“…Chayanov (1925Chayanov ( , 1966 greatly elaborated on the views of a string of late-19th-century Russian populist scholars termed the narodniks (Shanin 1986;Sivakumar 2001). But there has always been dissent.…”

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“…But there has always been dissent. Chayanov (1925Chayanov ( , 1966 greatly elaborated on the views of a string of late-19th-century Russian populist scholars termed the narodniks (Shanin 1986;Sivakumar 2001). By first comprehensively analysing differences between family and wage-worked organization and motivation in agriculture, he pointed to issues that have been revived in a debate that has arisen mainly since the 1960s, when his work was first translated into English.…”

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Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question

Brookfield

2008

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Family farming is far from dead, in either the developed or developing countries. Family farms need to be qualitatively defined, with both family management and substantial labour input being central elements. The ‘agrarian question’ has been largely about their disappearance and replacement by capitalist farms, or subsumption by agribusiness, but they have competed successfully with capitalist farms for a long period. In modern times, the economies of scale are largely captured by farms within the normal family‐operated range. Pluriactivity is not only a means by which otherwise uneconomic farms survive; it is also a means of enlarging income and opportunity as farms can be managed with less labour. The adaptability and efficiency that family farmers have demonstrated continue. It is time that the old agrarian question was inverted to ask how and why family farming survives, and why it will continue to do so.

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Section: Dissenting Punctuations In the Debatementioning

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Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question

Brookfield

2008

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“…Furthermore, peasants could, occasionally, act contrarily to the precepts of neoclassical economics, failing, for instance, to seek profit maximization. This result might also apply to other social groups facing a choice between the drudgery of labor and the benefits of consumption (Sivakumar, 2001).…”

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“…On the other hand, the institutional and organizational aspects of Chayanov's economics, as well as his support for the creation of peasant cooperatives, cannot be ignored. To Sivakumar (2001), Chayanov's macroeconomics was proof that depicting him as a marginalist was more a rhetorical argument than an assessment based on theory:…”

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Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy: history and contemporary relevance

Franco

2021

Journal of Political Ecology

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Based on the ecological utopianism of Narodnik thinkers, this article assesses the programmatic concept of ecological neo-narodnism, as put forth by Martinez-Alier (1987), addressing (1) to what extent it conforms to the intellectual legacy of the Narodniki? (2) what are its main theoretical foundations and policy recommendations for a peasant economy in the 21st century? and (3) how it contributes to contemporary social and environmental challenges. It explores in detail the ecological economic theories which can be applied to the peasant economy according to the ideology of ecological neo-narodnism, the latter analyzed from the perspectives of the fields of political economy and political ecology. Peasant movements are addressed as the manifestation of such a worldview. Finally, the contributions of ecological neo-narodnism to overcome current social and environmental challenges are discussed and associated with economic degrowth.

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“… 59 For recent works that enlist both Chayanov and Georgescu-Roegen as sources of inspiration for a new paradigm of economic development, see Martinez-Alier (1997), Sivakumar (2010), and Gerber (2020). …”

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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist

Suprinyak¹

2022

J Hist Econ Thought

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Accounts of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s career usually focus on his pioneer contributions to mathematical economics during the 1930s and his later conversion to a critical approach to economic theory anchored on the entropy law. These disparate moments, however, were connected by Georgescu-Roegen’s strong attraction to the study of problems afflicting less developed societies. This began with his work on the agrarian economy of his native Romania, in the late 1940s, under the auspices of Harvard’s Russian Research Center. Thenceforth, he embarked on a journey that spawned his early interest in Leontief-type linear models, an extended tour of Southeast Asia commissioned by Vanderbilt University’s Graduate Program in Economic Development, and several visits to Brazil during the 1960s. The paper highlights these lesser-known aspects of Georgescu-Roegen’s trajectory, examining how he built on neo-populist writings from the early twentieth century to construct an alternative to the mainstream emphasis on industrialization policies.

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The Unfinished Narodnik Agenda: Chayanov, Marxism, and Marginalism Revisited

Cited by 7 publications

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Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question

Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question

Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy: history and contemporary relevance

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist

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