Communities and Markets in Economic Development

by Aoki, Masahiko; Hayami, Yujiro

• ISBN13: 9780199241019
• ISBN10: 0199241015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Presents historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspectives on the role of local communities and social norms in the economic development process.

Author Biography

Masahiko Aoki is Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Director-General of the Research Institute of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. His work on the theory of the firm, the Japanese economy, and comparative economic institutions has given rise to many widely read publications, including The Japanese Main Bank System (co-edited with Hugh Patrick) and The Co-operative Game Theory of the Firm.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Abbreviations	xii
List of Contributors	xiii
Introduction: communities and Markets in Economic Development	xv
Masahiko Aoki
Yujiro Hayami
Part I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe	3	(39)
Avner Greif
Community and Market in England: Open Fields and Enclosures Revisited	42	(28)
Robert C. allen
The Two Paths of Agrarian System Evolution in the Philippine Rice Bowl	70	(27)
Yujiro Hayami
Masao Kikuchi
Community Norms and Embeddednss: A Game-Theoretic Approach	97	(32)
Masahiko Aoki
Part II. Community in Market Development
Middlemen in a Peasant Community: Vegetable Marketing in Indonesia	129	(24)
Yujiro Hayami
Toshihiko Kawagoe
Market Integrators for Rural-based Industrialization: The Case of the Hand-Weaving Industry in Laos	153	(33)
Akihiko Ohno
The Role of Business Networks in Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	186	(29)
Marcel Fafchamps
Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zouping County, china	215	(32)
Jonathan Morduch
Terry Sicular
Part III. Governance of Local Commons
Water Community: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperation on Irrigation in South India	247	(18)
Pranab Bardhan
State, Community, and Market in the Deterioration of a National Irrigation System in the Philippines	265	(30)
Masao Kikuchi
Masako Fujita
Yujiro Hayami
Evolution and Consequences of Community Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal	295	(23)
Keijiro Otsuka
Towa Tachibana
Liberal Reforms and Community Responses in Mexico	318	(26)
Alain de Janvry
Celine Dutilly
Carlos Munoz-Pina
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Community Arrangements to Overcome Market Failures: Pooling Groups in Japanese Fisheries	344	(65)
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Erika Seki
Comments	403	(6)
Douglass C. North
Index	409