Title:Development Microeconomics
Authors:Pranab Bardhan & Christopher Udry
Oxford University Press,1999

该书已由北京大学出版社翻译出版了中文版（陶然译）

Introduction
   In this textbook we do not even attempt any comprehensive or broad representation of the issues of development and underdevelopment. Our intention is to be selective and illustrative, to give examples of analytical thinking on some of the major issues. In the choice of issues, our focus is on those that are more relevant to the very poor countries (not so much to the middle-income developing countries, or even, in the latter countries, on issues that are more relevant to the poorest sections of their population). Hence, for example, our frequent emphasis on the rural and the more unorganized or informal sectors of the economy.
   The issue of relevance should not, however, be interpreted in the sense of immediate applicability in matters of practical policy. Our treatment of problems in this book is largely theoretical (though not technically at a highly sophisticated level). We do not try to capture the variety of empirical experience in different parts of the world that
have accumulated over the last few decades (and the many careful econometric estimates that are now available on the basis of the data collected). We occasionally refer to some empirical work, but more as an example to highlight the theoretical point that we happen to be making. Even in the theoretical treatment we are highly selective, not comprehensive. While in our choice of issues we have to keep analytical tractability and ease of exposition in mind, we like to think that we have not done theory for theory's sake, but have chosen problems that have some, at least faint, resonance in the more complex, real world.

Contents
1.Introduction 1
2.Household Economics 7
3.Population 20
4.Fragmented Markets: Labour 33
5.Migration 49
6.The Rural Land Market 60
7.Fragmented Credit Markets 76
8.Risk and Insurance in an Agricultural Economy 94
9.Interlinkage of Transactions and Rural Development 110
10.Human Capital and Income Distribution 123
11.Poverty Alleviation: Efficiency and Equity Issues 132
12.Technological Progress and Learning 152
13.Environment and Development 168
14.Trade and Development 182
15.The Dual Economy 196
16.Intersectoral Complementarities and Coordination Failures 207
17.Institutional Economics and the State in Economic Development 217
Index 237