@article {618,
	title = {Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system},
	journal = {American Ethnologist},
	volume = {6},
	year = {1979},
	month = {November 1979},
	pages = {682-701},
	abstract = {<p>Models of market structure, borrowed from industrial organization economists, are employed to analyze the relationship between social organization and economic conditions in a Ghanaian marketing system. Comparative analysis of vegetable, fish, and yam marketing identifies three distinct modes of social organization\&nbsp;\&mdash; pure competition, ethnic monopolization, and associational monopolization \&mdash; and explains differences in social patterns in terms of underlying supply and distribution structures.</p>},
	keywords = {Africa, associational monopolization, economics, ethnic monopolization, fish, Ghana, market system, marketing, pure competition, social organization, social patterns, vegetables, yams},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/643564},
	author = {Brian Schwimmer}
}
