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Name:  Theodoros Sakellaropoulos
Email:  THESAK at PANTEION.GR
Institution:  Panteion University, Athens Greece

Co-author:  None

Title:  Institutional Causes of the Late Development of Capitalist 
Relations in Greek Agriculture: Approaches and Hypotheses

Internet Address of abstracted work: not available

By mail:
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Sakellaropoulos
14123, Athens Greece
Dimitsanas 19

Language:  English

Abstract:
The article deals with the methodological issues arising in 
approaching the problem of the institutional causes for the delay 
observed in the development of capitalist relations of production in 
Greek farming in an attempt to define both the potential and the 
actual dynamic of such a development. The feasibility of capital 
relations developing in agriculture is directly related to the 
emergence of unrestrained, free land ownership which in Greece was 
not completed until the 1920s as a result of the lengthy and painful 
process of national integration. It is argued that the historical 
delay coupled with specificities of the Greek Agrariant reform of 
1922 (multi- fragmentation of agricultural land ownership) led to the 
creation of negative conditions for the unfolding of the land 
concentration process. The underdevelopment of Greek agriculture is 
thus due, inter alia, to this delay in creating a modern bourgeois 
legal framework.

Bibliography: Sakellaropoulos, Theodoros. "Institutional Causes of 
the Late Development of Capitalist Relations in Greek Agriculture: 
Approaches and Hypotheses." Greek Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol.1, 
Issue 4, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-18.

Subject:  A
Geographical Area:  4
Country/Region:  Greece
Time Period:  8

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