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Anthropology and institutional economics
- Title
- Anthropology and institutional economics / edited by James M. Acheson.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1994.
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- Description
- v, 422 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Monographs in economic anthropology ; no. 12
- Subject
- Note
- "Co-published by arrangement with the Society for Economic Anthropology."
- "The papers in this volume were first presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, March 27-29, 1992"--Acknowledgements.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Overview. Welcome to Nobel country : a review of institutional economics / James M. Acheson -- Social dilemmas and rational individuals : an essay on the new institutionalism / Robert H. Bates -- Case studies : transaction costs, individual decisions and economic performance. Transaction costs through time : the case of the Orma pastoralists in east Africa / Jean Ensminger -- Institutionalizing opportunism : cheating on baby purse seiners in Batangas Bay, Philippines / Susan Russell -- Individual choice and institutional constraints : the new organization of health care in the USA / Melissa Rehfus and Christina Gladwin -- Transaction costs and business strategies in a Mexican Indian pueblo / James Acheson -- The household economy in rural China : is the involution over? / Laurel Bossen -- Case studies : institutions and the state. Vendors and the government : a case study in institutional economics / Judith E. Marti -- An agency model of the state : contributions and limitations of institutional economics / Mark Moberg.
- The commercialization of the Guatemalan economy, 1871-1944 : political and military dimensions / Paul V. McDowell -- Case studies : institutions and credit. Village credit and the reproduction of proverty [sic] in contemporary rural Bangladesh / J. Allister McGregor -- Time and money in the western Sahel : a clash of cultures in Gambian rural finance / Parker Shipton -- Theoretical issues concerning institutional economics. "But where on earth has Mamadou hidden his production function?" French Africanist rural economics and institutionalism / Jean-Philippe Colin & Bruno Losch -- Inside the economic institution : modelling household budget structures / Richard Wilk -- Reevaluating economic rationality : individuals, information and institutions / Barry H. Michie.
- Call Number
- JBE 97-1669
- ISBN
- 0819195952 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0819195960 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94021983
- OCLC
- 30624151
- Title
- Anthropology and institutional economics / edited by James M. Acheson.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1994.
- Series
- Monographs in economic anthropology ; no. 12
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Indexed Term
- Economics Related to Sociology
- Added Author
- Acheson, James M.Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting (11th : 1992 : University of California at Irvine)
- Research Call Number
- JBE 97-1669