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rational peasant: a standalone construct

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rationalpeasant1 CONSTRUCTRational peasantPOPKIN · SOCIAL HISTORY

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the thesis that peasants act as individual rational calculators of advantage rather than through a shared subsistence ethic.

In social history, rational peasant refers to the thesis that peasants act as individual rational calculators of advantage rather than through a shared subsistence ethic. This meaning comes from Popkin (1979) in The Rational Peasant.[1]

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  1. Popkin, S. L. (1979). The Rational Peasant. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520341623

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