Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies

by Elizabeth Cashdan

Book Overview

This book is concerned with how people respond to unpredictable variation in environmental and economic conditions (risk) and lack of information (uncertainty) about those risks. The papers focus on tribal and peasant societies. These societies lack many of the formal institutions that we, in the industrialized West, rely on to buffer us against unpredictable resource fluctuations. As the papers in this volume show, people in these societies are directly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367301571
• ISBN13: 9780367301576
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"