Communities and Markets in Economic Development [Hardcover]

This volume presents historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspectives on the role of local communities and social norms in the economic development process. Using historical evidence combined with recent developments in institutional economics involving game theory and contracts, it establishes that communities can enhance the development of a market economy under certain circumstances -- and sheds light on what those circumstances are.

Introduction: Communities and Markets in Economic Development,Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami
Part I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
1. Impersonal Exchange and the Origin of Markets: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe,Avner Greif
2. Community and Market in England: Open Fields and Enclosures Revisited,Robert C. Allen
3. The Two Paths of Agrarian System Evolution in the Philippine Rice Bowl,Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi
4. Community Norms and Embeddedness: A Game-Theoretic Approach,Masahiko Aoki
Part II. Community in Market Development
5. Middlemen in a Peasant Community: Vegetable Marketing in Indonesia,Yujiro Hayami and Toshihiko Kawagoe
6. Market Integrators for Rural-based Industrialization: The Case of the Hand-Weaving Industry in Laos,Akihiko Ohno
7. The Role of Business Networks in Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,Marcel Fafchamps
8. Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zhouping County, China,Jonathan Morduch and Terry Sicular
Part III. Governance of Local Commons
9. Water Community: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperation on Irrigation in South India,Pranab Bardhan
10. State and Community in the Deterioration of a National Irrigation System,Masao Kikuchi, Masako Fujita, and Yujiro Hayami
11. Evolution and Consequences of Community ForlÓ&