Abstract: ABSTRACT The diffusion of technological innovations commonly is viewed as an index of the geographic spread of economic development. This is tantamount to equating development with the physical growth of production forces, a rather misleading simplification of what is otherwise a very complex process. For example, the "Green Revolution''has been heralded as the harbinger of economic modernization to rural India, but it has other far more fundamental implications for village life. By instituting changes in production relations, the Green Revolution is aiding in the transformation of an entire mode of production. The notion of privileged access to the means of production is important in understanding who adopts what under the emerging mode. This in turn bears upon the social distribution of the final product. The concept of "class rent''provides a useful analytical framework to explore the interdependencies between class privilege and production activity.
Publication Year: 1977
Publication Date: 1977-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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