Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system

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Year of Publication
1979
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American Ethnologist
Volume
6
Issue
4
Pagination
682-701
Date Published
11/1979
Language
English
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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.

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ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: Nov., 1979 / Copyright © 1979 American Anthropological Association

Journal Abbreviation
American Ethnologist
Number of pages
20 pp.
ISSN
0094-0496