The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development: Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana / Edition 1

by Emily Chamlee-Wright

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415169943
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/09/1997
Series:	Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

Emily Chamlee-Wright is Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College, Wisconsin, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One. Markets as an Extension of Culture Chapter Two. Economic and Cultural Knowledge: Ghanaian Economic Performance Through an Austrian Lens Chapter Three. The Cultural Foundation of Indigenous Entrepreneurship Chapter Four. Indigenous Credit, Mutual Assistance Societies and Economic Development: Prospects and Impediments Chapter Five. Towards an Interpretive Economics: Three Profiles of Urban Market Women Chapter Six. Conclusion. Culture and Economic Development within the Subjectivist Framework Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

Contends that principle reasons for the failure of international aid programs are that imported solutions are not based upon the indigenous institutions in African countries and that the connections between such institutions and the cultural context that produces and sustains then has been misunderstood by mainstream economic theory, which is fundamentally acultural. Argues that 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. Applies the approach to women entrepreneurs in Ghana. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'This is a good and serious contribution to the debate on economic development in Ghana and on the Austrian school more generally, which deserves to be widely read.' - Modern African Studies, Vol 36, No. 4 98

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