Seavoy insists that development economics is a failed discipline
because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference between
subsistence and commercial social values. Seavoy demonstrates that
commercial labor norms are essential for producing assured food
surpluses in all crop years and an assured food surplus is
essential for sustaining the development process. The
commercialization of food production is a political process, as in
the term political economy. If peasants have a choice, they will
not voluntarily perform commercial labor norms. Central governments
must overcome peasant resistance to performing commercial labor
norms by various forms of coercion. The most historically effective
coercions are deprivation of peasant control of land use by
foreclosure and eviction for excessive subsistence debts. Landless
peasants are forced to become supervised paid laborers. Coercion is
most effective when it is linked to money rewards for peasants who
voluntarily transform themselves into yeomen cultivators or
farmers. These commercially motivated cultivators and storekeepers
become the resident commercializing agents in peasant villages who
administer the central government's coercive and inducement
policies. Based on extensive examples and field observation, this
book is designed for use in courses that explore problems of
economic development. Scholars and government policy makers will
find the analysis equally provocative.
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