Market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system
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Year of Publication |
1979
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American Ethnologist
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Volume |
6
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Issue |
4
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Pagination |
682-701
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Date Published |
11/1979
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Language |
English
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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. |
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ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: Nov., 1979 / Copyright © 1979 American Anthropological Association |
Journal Abbreviation |
American Ethnologist
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Number of pages |
20 pp.
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ISSN |
0094-0496
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