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Communities and markets in economic development
1 online resource (xxiv, 419 pages) : illustrations, maps
Leading development economists present historical, contemporary and theoretical perspectives on the role of local communities and social norms in the economic development process, using historical evidence and contemporary studies.
Impersonal exchange and the origin of markets: from the community responsibility system to individual legal responsibility in pre-modern Europe / Avner Greif -- Community and market in England: open fields and enclosures revisited / Robert C. Allen -- The two paths of agrarian system evolution in the Philippine rice bowl / Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi -- Community norms and embeddedness: a game-theoretic approach / Masahiko Aoki -- Middlemen in a peasant community: vegetable marketing in Indonesia / Yujiro Hayami and Toshihiko Kawagoe -- Market integrators for rural-based industrialization: the case of the hand-weaving industry in Laos / Akihiko Ohno -- The role of business networks in market development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Marcel Fafchamps -- Risk and insurance in transition: perspectives from Zouping County, China / Jonathan Morduch and Terry Sicular -- Water community: an empirical analysis of cooperation on irrigation in South India / Pranab Bardhan -- State, community, and market in the deterioration of a national irrigation system in the Philippines / Masao Kikuchi, Masako Fujita, and Yujiro Hayami -- Evolution and consequences of community forest management in the hill region of Nepal / Keijiro Otsuka and Towa Tachibana -- Liberal reforms and community responses in Mexico / Alain de Janvry [and others] -- Community arrangements to overcome market failures: pooling groups in Japanese fisheries / Jean-Philippe Platteau and Erika Seki.
edited by Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001