ABSTRACT
Students of that part of the less developed world which is located in subsaharan Africa have long been dissatisfied with development models deriving from a situation in which increased output with existing techniques is thwarted by lack of uncultivated land. The demand for food is not limited by the capacity of the human stomach. The only activity other than farming, which is regarded as economic is the provision of food and shelter. Once it is recognized, however, that clothing may serve other ends than utilitarian protection against heat, cold, and thorns or the demands of modesty, the assumed limitation on demand for it becomes less convincing. The interpretation of economic behavior presented here is of an economy in which limited labor resources must be allocated among a number of productive economic activities, only one of which is farming, and it implies that a large part of the labor resources not devoted to producing food are in other productive employment.
