工分制下农户的经济行为——对恰亚诺夫假说的验证与补充

With the workpoint (gongfen) data during collective economy period from a village of Zhuang Minority (zhuangzu) in Guangxi, the author tries to discuss Chayanov's hypothesis that the peasant' s work and consumption is balanced, and analyses the economic behavior of peasants during the period of the collective economy in China (1957-1982). The author argues that the relation of the peasant's labor and consumption during the collective economy period usually satisfies Chayanov's hypothesis: “the degree of the peasant's labor devotion depends on the relation of the degree of the need satisfied and hardness of work". This behavior characteristic of the Chinese peasants is not only determined by the state power and ideology at that time, but also constituted, constrained and adjusted by the traditional Chinese culture, value and personhood. Additionally, the author argues that Chayanov's hypothesis would provide more universal explanation with the consideration that consumption is a kind of culture construction.