Fair Prices: Peasants and the possibilities of a Living Income (2013) by Ruud Bronkhorst
After a brief discussion of the main approaches to the concept of the ‘Living Wage’ (LW), a methodology is developed how to apply this concept to the case of peasants. Since peasants do not receive a wage, the Living Wage definition is adapted to that of a ‘Living Income’ (LI).
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