Anthropology

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Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Conflict

Rethinking Development Assistance

Edited by Milton J. Esman & Ronald J. Herring
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology

Investigates whether international development assistance helps or aggravates ethnic strife

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Harvesting Development

The Construction of Fresh Food Markets in Papua New Guinea

By Karl Benediktsson
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, System -- Development

An examination of the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Guinea

Economic Organizations and Social Systems

By Robert A. Solo
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

The reappearance of a book written and published before its time

Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity

Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange

By Janet Landa
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How ethnic kin-based trading networks can rely on trust when a well-developed framework of contract laws is missing

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