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„Der Anbau von Schlafmohn bringt mir Verluste ein“

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Opium was a major cash-crop in nineteenth-century India. Over a million peasants cultivated poppy for the British-Indian government, which held a monopoly over the production of the drug and could thus keep the prices paid to the cultivators at an extremely low level. The major question this paper seeks to answer is why so many peasants cultivated this laborious crop despite a clear lack of financial incentives. This problem is tackled by applying two approaches from development economics, i. e. interlinked transactions and Kaushi Basu’s triadic relations model.

Source: Historische Anthropologie

DOI: 10.7788/ha-2017-0206

Author: Rolf Bauer

Institution: University of Vienna

Language: German

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Zero hunger, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2765643290

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