 Village Level Exchange: Lessons from South IndiaWendy Olsen Chapter 2 in Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice, 1999, pp 40-86 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The phrase exchange relations refers to the social relations between people as they trade in goods and services. This chapter describes the use of a survey to study exchange. Some specific techniques and analytical improvements for future research on agrarian markets are suggested. An exchange relations approach to the study of markets directs attention not only to the goods being exchanged but also to the people, families and institutions that are exchanging them. The exchanges scrutinised are not limited to sales, but can include gifts, sharing, barter, loans, and intrahousehold transfers. Exchange relations are often contrasted to production relations. The latter refer to the social relations between the providers and the buyers of human labour, while the former can refer to the exchange of many other products including foods, fertilisers, luxury goods, services, and even consumer credit. The exchange relations approach allows ‘labour’ to be treated in special ways instead of being labelled simply as one among many commodities. Keywords: Interest Rate; Production Relation; Credit Market; Exchange Relation; Wage Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-27273-0_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27273-0_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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