Markets With, Without, and in Spite of States: West Africa in the Pre-colonial Nineteenth Century

This paper offers one Africanist’s perspective on the question (to paraphrase Patrick O’Brien) of how, where, when and why a sample of states encouraged or restrained economic growth from recurring. The last phrase places the focus where it belongs: the issue in Sub-Saharan economic history is not the absence of episodes of growth, for such occurred, but rather the rarity with which they recurred or were sustained.[...]

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Year of publication:	2004-03-01
Authors:	Austin, Gareth
Institutions:	London School of Economics and Political Science
Subject:	Wirtschaft \| Zins \| Wachstum \| Wirtschaftsgeschichtsschreibung \| Property-Rights-Ansatz \| Intellectual Property Rights protection

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Extent:	197632 bytes 30 p. application/pdf
Series:	London School of Economics and Political Science - Publications Global Economic History Network (GEHN) Working papers ; No. 03/04
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	History of business administration ; Study of commerce ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; WESTERN AFRICA
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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