Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya

by Robert H. Bates

• ISBN13: 9780521852692
• ISBN10: 0521852692
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. Robert Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and criticizes the neo-classical turn in development economics. Attributing Kenya's exceptionalism to its economic institutions, Bates relates its subsequent economic decline to the change from the Kenyatta to the Moi regime--and the subsequent use of the power of economic institutions to redistribute rather than to create wealth.

Table of Contents

List of tables, figures, and maps	ix
Series editors' preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
A note on weights, measures, and currency	xv
Preface to the new edition	xvii
Introduction	1	(10)
1 The demand for revolution: the agrarian origins of Mau Mau	11	(34)
Appendix IA: Kinship and stratification	41	(4)
2 Material interest and political preference: the agrarian origins of political conflict	45	(28)
3 Institutional structure, agricultural development, and political conflict	73	(20)
4 From drought to famine: the dynamics of subsistence crises	93	(30)
Appendix 4A: The buying center program	116	(7)
5 The politics of food crises	123	(24)
Appendix 5A: Famine: Meru, August 1984	139	(8)
Conclusion	147	(8)
Notes	155	(32)
Index	187