Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Theory of Technical and Institutional Change -- 3 Economic Change in Thailand, 1880 to 1940 -- 4 The Technology of Rice Production, 1880 to 1940 -- 5 Institutional Change: Irrigation Policy -- 6 From Property Rights in Man to Property Rights in Land -- 7 Technical and Institutional Change in Thai Agriculture, 1880 to 1940 -- 8 Post-World War II Thai Agricultural Development -- Appendix 1 Economic Data -- Appendix 2 A General Equilibrium Model with Two Goods and Three Factors -- Appendix 3 Explanations of the Yield Decline in the Central Plain, 1920-21 to 1941 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.