POOR FARMERS AND MARKETS.

POOR FARMERS AND MARKETS. There is much debate among economic historians about whether subsistence farmers in ancient Greece or Rome or in nineteenth century America were influenced by market prices. The Indian farmers in the Wall Street Journal story value cellphones in part because of the market information they are able to pick up on prices, deliveries and pickups. I posted here about how cellphones help the poor use markets.

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