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Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: Communities and Markets in Economic Development

Communities and Markets in Economic Development

Aoki, Masahiko (Editor), Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor, Economics Department, Stanford University, and Director General, Research Institute, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Government of Japan

Hayami, Yujiro (Editor), Director, FASID Graduate Programme, and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924101-9
doi:10.1093/0199241015.001.0001

Abstract: This book analyses the role of communities and markets in economic development. It is divided into three parts. Part I presents four chapters on historical and theoretical perspectives on the community and market. Part II contains four chapters focusing on the role of the community in the process of market development in contemporary developing and transitional economics. Part III focuses on communal control over public goods.

Keywords: community, markets, economic development, market development, community control, public goods

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Part I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

1. Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-Modern Europe

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2. Community and Market in England: Open Fields and Enclosures Revisited

3. The Two Paths of Agrarian System Evolution in the Philippine Rice Bowl

4. Community Norms and Embeddedness: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Part II. Community in Market Development

5. Middlemen in a Peasant Community: Vegetable Marketing in Indonesia

6. Market Integrators for Rural-based Industrialization: The Case of the Hand-Weaving Industry in Laos

7. The Role of Business Networks in Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

8. Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zouping County, China

Part III. Governance of Local Commons

9. Water Community: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperation on Irrigation in South India

10. State, Community and Market in the Deterioration of a National Irrigation System in the Philippines

11. Evolution and Consequences of Community Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal

12. Liberal Reforms and Community Responses in Mexico

13. Community Arrangements to Overcome Market Failures: Pooling Groups in Japanese Fisheries

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Index

doi:10.1093/0199241015.001.0001