[fre] L'économie classique présentait le métayage, dans une perspective évolutionniste, comme un mode de faire-valoir rendu indispensable par le faible niveau d'accumulation de capital des tenanciers. Par la suite, l'approche néo-classique orthodoxe n'a pas pu apporter d'explication...

[eng] Whereas the economics of agrarian contracts is rooted in the contractual paradigm, this paper offer a conceptualization of agrarian contracts as «composite» institutional arrangements, with contractual, conventional and regulatory dimensions. The theoretical and methodological...

[eng] Sharecropping as a partnership. the a medias contract in the sierra madre oriental - Mexico - Sharecropping is usually explained by a trade-off between tenant's risk aversion and incentives (standard Principal-Agent approach) or between agency costs under various market imperfections, and...