Reforming the Collective Farm: a model

Minquan Liu

International Review of Applied Economics, 1998, vol. 12, issue 1, 69-88

Abstract: Collective members on China's communes actively participated in collective production, working even more so than a self-cultivating farmer would, but while engaged in collective work they shirked. The cause of shirking was the work accounting system which credited workpoints according to individual tasks a member performed. A reformed collective farm system (RS) is analysed, which relates workpoints directly to the output a farmer produces. It is shown that the RS can both eliminate the shirking problem as was extensive on communes, and maintain the potential for infrastructural investment through labour accumulation, a practice also widespread on communes.

Date: 1998
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