The Rational Peasant. The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam.
Berkeley. Uni of California. 1979. Maps, xxi + 306pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket spine little sunned, a good hardback copy. "In this book, Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands..... More