Jean Ensminger

Making a Market

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1993 book analyses the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521420600
• ISBN-10: 0521420601
• Artikelnr.: 23185127

Inhaltsangabe

1. A proper marriage: new institutional economic anthropology
2. Transaction costs: the history of trade among the Orma
3. Distribution of the gains from trade
4. Agency theory: patron-client relations as a form of labor contracting
5. Property rights: dismantling the commons
6. Collective action: from community to state
7. Conclusion: ideology and the economy.