Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society. (book reviews)

Jean Ensminger has written an excellent book that addresses several different audiences. She is an anthropologist, but much of what she has to say is addressed to economists, sociologists, and political scientists. She "combines the individual-actor approach of economics, anthropology's appreciation of institutional constraints, incentives, and ideology, and the attention to power that we associate with Marxist analyses".

The fact that the book cuts across so many different disciplines is one of its principal merits. The author draws from these different fields not ad hoc but ...

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