The present paper claims that the Emilio Sereni ideas concerning the peasant farm and monopolistic powers, provided insights for important schools of agricultural economic thought in Italy and maintain, currently, a remarkable interpretative power. Indeed, the categories of peasant farm and monopolistic powers have been analyzed over a new perspective. Firstly, Sereni observed that new social relations had been emerging between capitalistic formations and peasant farms in the Italian agriculture. The penetration of capitalism involved ever more not agricultural units of production, but the formation of big trusts that kept up linkages upstream (suppliers of means of production) or downstream (food industry) of agriculture. Secondly, the monopolistic stage of capitalism favoured the socialization of the productive forces and allowed the transition from peasant farm to small agricultural enterprise. Groups of small agricultural enterprises could raise networks where a democratic control of the development processes takes place.
Impresa coltivatrice e poteri monopolistici: categorie chiave del pensiero economico-agrario di Emilio Sereni.
POMPEI, Fabrizio
2009
Abstract
The present paper claims that the Emilio Sereni ideas concerning the peasant farm and monopolistic powers, provided insights for important schools of agricultural economic thought in Italy and maintain, currently, a remarkable interpretative power. Indeed, the categories of peasant farm and monopolistic powers have been analyzed over a new perspective. Firstly, Sereni observed that new social relations had been emerging between capitalistic formations and peasant farms in the Italian agriculture. The penetration of capitalism involved ever more not agricultural units of production, but the formation of big trusts that kept up linkages upstream (suppliers of means of production) or downstream (food industry) of agriculture. Secondly, the monopolistic stage of capitalism favoured the socialization of the productive forces and allowed the transition from peasant farm to small agricultural enterprise. Groups of small agricultural enterprises could raise networks where a democratic control of the development processes takes place.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
