Originally published in 1970, this is a collection of studies of indigenous economies in Ghana and Nigeria by an author with an unusual interdisciplinary approach. In the opening section it is contended that most economists interested in underdeveloped countries have neglected the detailed study of economic organization and mechanism in the field, especially in rural areas, and that, as a result, there has been little testing of many conventional implicit assumptions that happen to be invalid. The subsequent chapters of the ...
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Originally published in 1970, this is a collection of studies of indigenous economies in Ghana and Nigeria by an author with an unusual interdisciplinary approach. In the opening section it is contended that most economists interested in underdeveloped countries have neglected the detailed study of economic organization and mechanism in the field, especially in rural areas, and that, as a result, there has been little testing of many conventional implicit assumptions that happen to be invalid. The subsequent chapters of the book are both a vigorous corrective to socio-economic generalisations based on too little data and a demonstration of the possibilities of a research method that owes more to the example of social anthropologists than to that of economists. The sophistication of the picture of certain sectors of rural life that emerges from the whole book will surprise many readers.
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173 pages, references & bibliographies, graphs, tables, maps: indigenous economies including cocoa farmers, seine fishermen & cattle owners in GHANA and Katsina tobacco growers & Hausa village farmers in NIGERIA; hardback, ex Development Library with a couple of small ink stamps ow almost vg, g++ dw.
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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0521076226.
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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0521076226.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0521076226.
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Very Good in Fair jacket. xxiii + 173pp, 4 maps, 5 graphs, 27 tables. "The six separate studies [of Ghana and Nigeria] show AAfrican farmers, fishermen, cattle rearers and cattle traders acting shrewdly and enterprisingly in ways that are familiar in more developed countries, some of them handling large amounts of capital". VG+ in dustjacket torn with loss. CB49.
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Very Good. xxiii + 173pp, 27 tables, 5 graphs, 4 maps. Important field-work study on rural capital and capitalists in West Africa, on the boundaries of anthropology, economics and sociology. Chapters on Ghanaian Cocoa-farmers, Ewe Seine fishermen, tobacco growers, cattle-dealing on the Accra plains, the northern Ghanaian cattle trade, farms & farmers in a Hausa village (N. Nigeria). Unmarked, VG in VG dust-jacket.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. African Studies . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
