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Communities and Markets in Economic Development

Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami

Abstract

This book analyses the role of communities and markets in economic development. It is divided into three parts. Part I presents four chapters on historical and theoretical perspectives on the community and market. Part II contains four chapters focusing on the role of the community in the process of market development in contemporary developing and transitional economics. Part III focuses on communal control over public goods.

Keywords: community, markets, economic development, market development, community control, public goods

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9780199241019
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2004 DOI:10.1093/0199241015.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Masahiko Aoki, editor
Stanford University, and Director General, Research Institute, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Government of Japan
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Yujiro Hayami, editor
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Communities and Markets in Economic Development

Part I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

1 Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre‐Modern Europe

Avner Greif

2 Community and Market in England: Open Fields and Enclosures Revisited

Robert C. Allen

3 The Two Paths of Agrarian System Evolution in the Philippine Rice Bowl

Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi

4 Community Norms and Embeddedness: A Game‐Theoretic Approach

Masahiko Aoki

Part II Community in Market Development

5 Middlemen in a Peasant Community: Vegetable Marketing in Indonesia

Yujiro Hayami and Toshihiko Kawagoe

6 Market Integrators for Rural‐based Industrialization: The Case of the Hand‐Weaving Industry in Laos

Akihiko Ohno

7 The Role of Business Networks in Market Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Marcel Fafchamps

8 Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zouping County, China

Jonathan Morduch and Terry Sicular

Part III Governance of Local Commons

9 Water Community: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperation on Irrigation in South India

Pranab Bardhan

10 State, Community and Market in the Deterioration of a National Irrigation System in the Philippines

Masao Kikuchi, Masako Fujita, and Yujiro Hayami

11 Evolution and Consequences of Community Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal

Keijiro Otsuka and Towa Tachibana

12 Liberal Reforms and Community Responses in Mexico

Alain de Janvry, Céline Dutilly, Carlos Muñoz‐Piña, and Elisabeth Sadoulet

13 Community Arrangements to Overcome Market Failures: Pooling Groups in Japanese Fisheries

Jean‐Philippe Platteau and Erika Seki

Comments

Douglass C. North

End Matter

Index