Ester Boserup was a Danish economist who spent many years researching the problems of economic development and agriculture for the United Nations and acted as economic consultant for other international bodies. She studied in India under Gunnar Myrdal. She died in 1999.
-This is a stimulating, even provocative book which should cause
many social scientists and agriculturalists to revise, expand, or
at least re-examine their views of the processes of agricultural
change... The book is a new signpost along important roads of
scholarship. It may be either accepted or refuted in whole or in
part; it cannot be ignored.- --Clarence W. Olmstead, Economic
Geography -This essay... [is] a most formative work in the theory
of agricultural change. In it Mrs Boserup lifts the theory of
agricultural development out of the rut of sterile discussion of
land use and tenure, and sets it within an illuminating dynamic
framework, which reveals the irrelevance of old squabbles by
raising neglected but fundamental issues... Mrs Boserup writes with
great rigour, economy and clarity.- --Charles M. Elliott, The
Economic History Review -Bosserup's theory derives agricultural
development in many pre-industrial societies from population
growth: -population growth is here regarded as the independent
variable which in its turn is a major factor determining
agricultural developments-... A steadily increasing population
within a given land area necessitates new agricultural techniques
and more intensive land use in order to feed the expanding
population... [Boserup] has justly brought attention to population
growth as an essential factor in any model of societal development.
This is a point frequently overlooked by anthropologists.-
--Charles Sheffer, American Antiquity -It is always a pleasure to
see a potent and useful text made more available, and Boserup's
quondam revolutionary work is just that... Boserup's argument
reversed the standard doctrine that in basic agrarian societies
'agricultural development controls population growth' and instead
argued that population growth would determine agricultural
development... Throughout, the argument is kept beautifully
succinct. The points of contention are clearly indicated, leaving
the reader free to develop counter arguments and add interpretation
as the argument is developed; which makes for that rare object, an
excellent, thought-provoking, teaching text.- --John F. Loder,
Journal of Tropical Ecology -a classic in the development
literature.- --Education in Science and Technology -essential
reading in the context of the generally gloomy debate on the
effects of population growth on poverty and the status of the
environment.- --Development Policy Review
"This is a stimulating, even provocative book which should cause
many social scientists and agriculturalists to revise, expand, or
at least re-examine their views of the processes of agricultural
change... The book is a new signpost along important roads of
scholarship. It may be either accepted or refuted in whole or in
part; it cannot be ignored." --Clarence W. Olmstead, Economic
Geography "This essay... [is] a most formative work in the theory
of agricultural change. In it Mrs Boserup lifts the theory of
agricultural development out of the rut of sterile discussion of
land use and tenure, and sets it within an illuminating dynamic
framework, which reveals the irrelevance of old squabbles by
raising neglected but fundamental issues... Mrs Boserup writes with
great rigour, economy and clarity." --Charles M. Elliott, The
Economic History Review "Bosserup's theory derives agricultural
development in many pre-industrial societies from population
growth: "population growth is here regarded as the independent
variable which in its turn is a major factor determining
agricultural developments..". A steadily increasing population
within a given land area necessitates new agricultural techniques
and more intensive land use in order to feed the expanding
population... [Boserup] has justly brought attention to population
growth as an essential factor in any model of societal development.
This is a point frequently overlooked by anthropologists."
--Charles Sheffer, American Antiquity "It is always a pleasure to
see a potent and useful text made more available, and Boserup's
quondam revolutionary work is just that... Boserup's argument
reversed the standard doctrine that in basic agrarian societies
'agricultural development controls population growth' and instead
argued that population growth would determine agricultural
development... Throughout, the argument is kept beautifully
succinct. The points of contention are clearly indicated, leaving
the reader free to develop counter arguments and add interpretation
as the argument is developed; which makes for that rare object, an
excellent, thought-provoking, teaching text." --John F. Loder,
Journal of Tropical Ecology "a classic in the development
literature." --Education in Science and Technology "essential
reading in the context of the generally gloomy debate on the
effects of population growth on poverty and the status of the
environment." --Development Policy Review
"This is a stimulating, even provocative book which should cause
many social scientists and agriculturalists to revise, expand, or
at least re-examine their views of the processes of agricultural
change... The book is a new signpost along important roads of
scholarship. It may be either accepted or refuted in whole or in
part; it cannot be ignored." --Clarence W. Olmstead, Economic
Geography "This essay... [is] a most formative work in the theory
of agricultural change. In it Mrs Boserup lifts the theory of
agricultural development out of the rut of sterile discussion of
land use and tenure, and sets it within an illuminating dynamic
framework, which reveals the irrelevance of old squabbles by
raising neglected but fundamental issues... Mrs Boserup writes with
great rigour, economy and clarity." --Charles M. Elliott, The
Economic History Review "Bosserup's theory derives agricultural
development in many pre-industrial societies from population
growth: "population growth is here regarded as the independent
variable which in its turn is a major factor determining
agricultural developments..". A steadily increasing population
within a given land area necessitates new agricultural techniques
and more intensive land use in order to feed the expanding
population... [Boserup] has justly brought attention to population
growth as an essential factor in any model of societal development.
This is a point frequently overlooked by anthropologists."
--Charles Sheffer, American Antiquity "It is always a pleasure to
see a potent and useful text made more available, and Boserup's
quondam revolutionary work is just that... Boserup's argument
reversed the standard doctrine that in basic agrarian societies
'agricultural development controls population growth' and instead
argued that population growth would determine agricultural
development... Throughout, the argument is kept beautifully
succinct. The points of contention are clearly indicated, leaving
the reader free to develop counter arguments and add interpretation
as the argument is developed; which makes for that rare object, an
excellent, thought-provoking, teaching text." --John F. Loder,
Journal of Tropical Ecology "a classic in the development
literature." --Education in Science and Technology "essential
reading in the context of the generally gloomy debate on the
effects of population growth on poverty and the status of the
environment." --Development Policy Review
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