Research Catalog

Title

Trust, ethnicity, and identity : beyond the new institutional economics of ethnic trading networks, contract law, and gift-exchange / Janet Tai Landa.

Author

Landa, Janet T.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.

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Details

Description

xvi, 225 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Economics, cognition, and society

Subject

• Economic anthropology
• Exchange
• Contracts
• Customary law
• Ethnicity > Economic aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Exchange and the problem of order in the social sciences: an introduction to this book -- An exchange economy with legally binding contract -- Specialization, exchange externalities, and contract law: a graph-theoretic approach -- Hadley v. Baxendale and the expansion of the middleman economy -- A theory of the ethnically homogeneous middleman group: an institutional alternative to contract law -- The economics of symbols, clan names, and religion / Jack L. Carr and Janet T. Landa -- The enigma of the Kula Ring: gift-exchanges and primitive law and order -- Socioeconomic organization of honeybee colonies / Janet T. Landa and Anthony Wallis -- Toward a theory of the emergence, evolution, and functions of exchange institutions in achieving ordered anarchy.

Call Number

JBE 95-1473

ISBN

047210361X (alk. paper)

LCCN

94001727

OCLC

29795087

Author

Landa, Janet T.

Title

Trust, ethnicity, and identity : beyond the new institutional economics of ethnic trading networks, contract law, and gift-exchange / Janet Tai Landa.

Imprint

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.

Series

Economics, cognition, and society

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Research Call Number

JBE 95-1473