TY - JOUR T1 - Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system JF - American Ethnologist Y1 - 1979 A1 - Brian Schwimmer KW - Africa KW - associational monopolization KW - economics KW - ethnic monopolization KW - fish KW - Ghana KW - market system KW - marketing KW - pure competition KW - social organization KW - social patterns KW - vegetables KW - yams AB -

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 — pure competition, ethnic monopolization, and associational monopolization — and explains differences in social patterns in terms of underlying supply and distribution structures.

VL - 6 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/643564 IS - 4 U1 - American Ethnologist U5 - 20 pp. ER -