Collective and Family Agriculture in Socialist Economies

Adjustnent through Opening of Socialist Economies

1.1 Systemic barriers to growth in the socialist 6 countries in the 1970s 1.2 Growing need for reform and the Hungarian experience 8 1.3 Systemic reforms vs. external financing.

Property Rights and Stratification in Socialist Redistributive Economies

Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces – Practices, Institutions and Networks

Economies of Size in Production Agriculture

Economies of size refer to the ability of a farm to lower costs of production by increasing production. Agriculture production displays an L-shaped average cost curve where costs are lower initially but reach a point where no further gains are achieved. Spreading fixed costs, bulk purchases, and marketing power are cited as reasons for economies of size. Labor-reducing technologies may be the p...

Economies of scope: context of agriculture, small family farmers and sustainability

What does this article offers? It raises questions on the assumptions of efficiency in agriculture, traces the history of the logic of scale replacing logic of scope, analyses its impact on sustainability and offers a framework to discern technical contradictions of efficiency across different sectors and find a balance for sustainability. It delves with a few basic questions: First, what is th...