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- catalog abstract "Economists have devoted considerable effort to explaining how a market economy functions, but they have given a good deal less attention to explaining how a market economy is formed. In this book, Jean Ensminger analyzes the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. She employs neoinstitutional economic analysis in order to assess the impact of new market institutions on production and distribution, with particular emphasis on the effect of institutions on decreasing transaction costs over time. She is able to trace the effects of increasing commercialization on the economic well-being of individual households, rich and poor alike and to analyze the process by which institutions themselves are transformed as a market economy develops. Changes in labor relationships, property rights, and the transfer of political authority from the council of leaders to the state are considered in particular detail. The case points to the importance of understanding the roles of ideology and bargaining power in shaping market institutions, in addition to pure economic forces, such as changing relative prices. The combination of neoinstitutional economic analysis and richly detailed anthropological case study produces a work full of new insights that may serve as the basis for a more adequate theory of economic development and more general social change.".
- catalog contributor b3932217.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "A proper marriage: new institutional economic anthropology -- Transaction costs: the history of trade among the Orma -- Distribution of the gains from trade -- Agency theory: patron-client relations as a form of labor contracting -- Property rights: dismantling the commons -- Collective action: from community to state -- Conclusion: ideology and the economy.".
- catalog description "Economists have devoted considerable effort to explaining how a market economy functions, but they have given a good deal less attention to explaining how a market economy is formed. In this book, Jean Ensminger analyzes the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. She employs neoinstitutional economic analysis in order to assess the impact of new market institutions on production and distribution, with particular emphasis on the effect of institutions on decreasing transaction costs over time. She is able to trace the effects of increasing commercialization on the economic well-being of individual households, rich and poor alike and to analyze the process by which institutions themselves are transformed as a market economy develops. Changes in labor relationships, property rights, and the transfer of political authority from the council of leaders to the state are considered in particular detail. The case points to the importance of understanding the roles of ideology and bargaining power in shaping market institutions, in addition to pure economic forces, such as changing relative prices. The combination of neoinstitutional economic analysis and richly detailed anthropological case study produces a work full of new insights that may serve as the basis for a more adequate theory of economic development and more general social change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-197) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 212 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521420601".
- catalog isPartOf "Political economy of institutions and decisions".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Kenya".
- catalog spatial "Kenya.".
- catalog subject "330.996762/04/089935 20".
- catalog subject "DT433.545.O74 E57 1992".
- catalog subject "Economic anthropology Kenya.".
- catalog subject "Institutional economics.".
- catalog subject "Nomads Kenya Sedentarisation.".
- catalog subject "Nomads Sedentarization Kenya.".
- catalog subject "Oromo (African people) Economic conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A proper marriage: new institutional economic anthropology -- Transaction costs: the history of trade among the Orma -- Distribution of the gains from trade -- Agency theory: patron-client relations as a form of labor contracting -- Property rights: dismantling the commons -- Collective action: from community to state -- Conclusion: ideology and the economy.".
- catalog title "Making a market : the institutional transformation of an African society / Jean Ensminger.".
- catalog type "text".