Cultural Foundations of Economic Development: Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana (Foundations of the Market Economy)

✍ Scribed by Chamlee-Wright

Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 215
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported. The economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of economic development and other market processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
MARKETS AS AN EXTENSION OF CULTURE......Page 32
ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE: GHANAIAN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE THROUGH AN AUSTRIAN LENS......Page 65
THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP......Page 111
INDIGENOUS CREDIT, MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETIES, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS AND IMPEDIMENTS......Page 144
TOWARDS AN INTERPRETIVE ECONOMICS: THREE PROFILES OF URBAN MARKET WOMEN......Page 167
CONCLUSION: CULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE SUBJECTIVIST FRAMEWORK......Page 188
Notes......Page 193
Bibliography......Page 196
Index......Page 209

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