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| Title: | The State and the Market: studies in the economic and social history of the Third World |
| Editor: | Dewey, Clive J. |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Pages: | 355 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | New Delhi |
| Publisher: | Manohar |
| ISBN: | 8185054290 |
| Geographic term: | developing countries |
| Subjects: | 1984 political systems market economy conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | When the Third World Economic History and Development Group convened a conference at Leicester in 1984 to discuss the interplay between the State and the market in underdeveloped areas over the last 200 years, participants came from 13 countries to discuss three related themes: the indigenous mercantilism which preceded the establishment of the Western empires; the changes which took place in agriculture and technology in response to market forces in the substantially 'open' economies which suited the colonial powers so well; and the revival of mercantilism, once the problems of the primary producers destroyed the consensus in favour of laissez-faire and the development economics of the 1950s played into the hands of newly-emergent regimes anxious to extend their networks of patronage. Five of the thirteen papers contain African case studies: The role of the Merina State in the decline of the imperial Merina economy, 1875-1895 (G. Campbell); Land and social stratification in the Dar Fur region of the Sudan, 1785-1875: the hakura system (G.M. La Rue); Markets, commodity production and indigenous farmers in colonial Algeria (P. Fitzgerald); Peasant differentation in Southern Rhodesia, 1898-1938 (I. Phimister); Selling tropical Africa's export crops: the experience of the interwar period (L. van der Laan). |