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Spatial Dynamics and the Persistence of Inequality in Siam during 1782-1855 (in Thai)

Applied Economics Journal

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Title Spatial Dynamics and the Persistence of Inequality in Siam during 1782-1855 (in Thai)
 
Creator Preechametta, Arayah; Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, 10200, Thailand.
 
Subject spatial inequality, subsistence economy, peasant, feudalism and patronage, moral hazard.
N35, N95, O43, D72, D82.
 
Description This paper analyzes the problem of spatial inequality which covered farmers living in and outside the upper Chao Phraya basin during 1782-1855. The study period was before the signing of Bowring Treaty when Siam was transitionally trapped between subsistence and market economies. The study examines the impacts of critical social and economic settings on regional productivity differentiation in Siam. These settings included the rental scheme for state land, the state monopoly power over major foreign trades, risk diversification in transition economy, and the interaction between patron and peasant under the feudal system. The study gives a rough estimate of income gap among farmers living in and outside the upper Chao Phraya basin. Average income of farmers living in the upper Chao Phraya basin was in the range from 1.46 to 2 times higher than the average income of farmers living outside the upper Chao Phraya basin during that period.
 
Publisher The Center for Applied Economics Research (CAER)
 
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Date 2016-05-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/AEJ/article/view/57241
 
Source Applied Economics Journal; Vol 21, No 2 (2014): DECEMBER; 1-29
0858-9291
 
Relation http://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/AEJ/article/view/57241/47449
 
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