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Master Thesis, 2015
This essay investigates why family farming persists historically and worldwide. Two main investig... more This essay investigates why family farming persists historically and worldwide. Two main investigative methods are used. Firstly, field research in Pakistan and China. Secondly, an analysis of the two main historical schools concerning agricultural development. One school emphasizes the importance of differentiation of farmers into employees and employers and large scale production. Karl Kautsky's and Graham Dyer's ideas represent this school here. The other school stresses smaller farms. This school is exemplified by Alexander Chayanov's thoughts and the theory that there is an inverse relationship between yields and farm size. This essay concludes that even if both schools contribute something, neither really answers the question. Based upon this conclusion, the knowledge acquired during field research, and using a historical materialistic approach, a new theory about the persistence of family farms is developed.
PhD Thesis, 2021
China has never been “growing out of the plan” (Naughton, 1995) nor is it a developmental state. ... more China has never been “growing out of the plan” (Naughton, 1995) nor is it a developmental state. The economy is bifurcated into a dominant state-owned planned sector and a secondary privately-owned market sector, but neither sector has the main responsibility for growth and innovation. Instead, it is the complementarity and conflict between the two sectors that is the driving force of the economy. The conflict is kept within defined bounds because most political and economic power is unified within the Communist Party of China (CCP), which constitutes the core of the Chinese state. This is a new economic system that I call a Dual-sector economy.
The basis for the present-day Dual-sector economy was laid by the peasant-based revolution of 1949. Until 1978, Command Planning was combined with rural industrialisation and farming outside the plan. From then, Command Planning gradually grew into a new form of planning, and rural industrialisation and farming grew into a privately-owned market sector. The CCP maintained its central role. By about 2003, a Dual-sector economy was in place.
The Dual-sector economy enabled China, more successfully than most countries, to overcome the effects of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and use it as an opportunity for a Big Push in innovation.
Master Thesis, 2015
This essay investigates why family farming persists historically and worldwide. Two main investig... more This essay investigates why family farming persists historically and worldwide. Two main investigative methods are used. Firstly, field research in Pakistan and China. Secondly, an analysis of the two main historical schools concerning agricultural development. One school emphasizes the importance of differentiation of farmers into employees and employers and large scale production. Karl Kautsky's and Graham Dyer's ideas represent this school here. The other school stresses smaller farms. This school is exemplified by Alexander Chayanov's thoughts and the theory that there is an inverse relationship between yields and farm size. This essay concludes that even if both schools contribute something, neither really answers the question. Based upon this conclusion, the knowledge acquired during field research, and using a historical materialistic approach, a new theory about the persistence of family farms is developed.
PhD Thesis, 2021
China has never been “growing out of the plan” (Naughton, 1995) nor is it a developmental state. ... more China has never been “growing out of the plan” (Naughton, 1995) nor is it a developmental state. The economy is bifurcated into a dominant state-owned planned sector and a secondary privately-owned market sector, but neither sector has the main responsibility for growth and innovation. Instead, it is the complementarity and conflict between the two sectors that is the driving force of the economy. The conflict is kept within defined bounds because most political and economic power is unified within the Communist Party of China (CCP), which constitutes the core of the Chinese state. This is a new economic system that I call a Dual-sector economy.
The basis for the present-day Dual-sector economy was laid by the peasant-based revolution of 1949. Until 1978, Command Planning was combined with rural industrialisation and farming outside the plan. From then, Command Planning gradually grew into a new form of planning, and rural industrialisation and farming grew into a privately-owned market sector. The CCP maintained its central role. By about 2003, a Dual-sector economy was in place.
The Dual-sector economy enabled China, more successfully than most countries, to overcome the effects of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and use it as an opportunity for a Big Push in innovation.