This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit vi…
A textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries.
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological re…
Objectives, scope, methods and hypothesis; Nigeria: the historical background; The genesis of the problem; Rural-urban relations as problem-generating structures; Field data: analysis and interpretation.
by Daloz, Jean-Pascal, Chabal, Patrick
fromAfrican issues
