Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system
| Title | Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1979 |
| Authors | Schwimmer, B |
| Journal | American Ethnologist |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pagination | 682-701 |
| Date Published | November 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Africa; associational monopolization; economics; ethnic monopolization; fish; Ghana; market system; marketing; pure competition; social organization; social patterns; vegetables; yams |
| Abstract | 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. |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/643564 |
| Research Notes | 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 |
