Format:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415330152
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9781136536618
Content:
The formation and management of capital are among the central issues in economic growth, especially in 'under-developed' countries, and form the main theme in this volume
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- The Authors -- 1. Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology -- Studies in the Peasant 'Capital' Sector -- Identification of Peasant Capital -- Formation and Management of Peasant Capital -- Saving and Investment -- Credit in the Peasant Economy -- Social Conditions and Capital Development -- 2. Some Aspects of Credit, Saving and Investment in a 'Non-Monetary' Economy (Rossel Island) -- Sociological and Psychological Explanation in Economic Development -- Rossel Island-a 'Non-Monetary' Economy -- Currency in Economic Transactions and Social Relationships -- The Peculiarities of Rossel Currency -- The Credit System -- Profiting from the Credit System -- Borrowing, Lending and Reciprocity -- Rossel Island Economic Development Today -- 3. Personal Capital Formation Among the Tolai of New Britain! -- 4. Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia -- Capital Form -- Social Implications -- Conclusion -- 5. Capital, Savings and Credit Among Lao Peasants' -- Land and Agricultural Income -- Patterns of Cash Income -- Market Gardening and Craftwork -- Trade, Commercial Enterprises and Wage Labour -- Consumption Patterns -- Attitudes Towards Consumption and Investment -- Rural and Urban Credit and Indebtedness -- 6. Capital Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India) -- Introduction -- Highland Orissa -- The Peasant Economy -- (a) Land in the peasant economy -- (b) Investment in land -- (c) Investment and credit in the peasant economy -- (d) Capital accumulation within the peasant economy -- (e) Social capital in the peasant economy -- (f) The peasant economy -- conclusions -- The Commercial Sector -- (a) Introduction
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(b) Growing turmeric -- (c) Trading in turmeric -- (d) The merchant-shopkeepers -- (e) The commercial sector: summary -- The Government Sector -- (a) Introduction -- (b) Government and the provision of capital -- (c) Government and the distribution of capital -- (d) Government and credit -- (e) The 'brokers' -- (f) Government activities: conclusion -- Conclusions -- 7. Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy -- Saving -- Capital -- Rubber Smallholdings -- Fruit Holdings -- Riceland -- Other Forms of Economic Activity -- Attitudes Towards Accumulation -- Credit -- Social Capital and the Plural Society -- Conclusion -- 8. Capital, Saving and Credit Among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories -- Introduction -- Field of enquiry -- Some facts about the New Territories -- Capital, Saving and Credit -- Capital: Rice Farmers -- Capital: Immigrant Vegetable Farmers -- Saving -- Credit -- Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Institutions for Capital Formation and Distribution Among Fijians -- II -- III -- The household -- Ceremonial -- Credit Unions -- Store Credit -- Producers' Credit -- Producers' Levies -- Social Capital -- IV -- 10. Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North -- The Background -- 1955: The 'Family' Komiti -- The Management of the Puriri Marae -- The Kotare Komiti Marae -- The Kotare Komiti and Social and Economic Change -- 11. Capital, Credit and Saving in Javanese Marketing -- The Market System -- Proliferation of Traders -- Cash, Wage-labour and Use of Time -- Trading Relationships -- Chinese and Javanese Traders -- Javanese Trader Groups -- Extension of Credit -- Interest and Indebtedness -- Sa Ving and Investment -- Credit Instruments -- 12. The Employment of Capital by Market Women in Haiti! -- Introduction -- Principles of Trading
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Trading with Small Amounts of Capital -- How Capital is Accumulated by Trading -- The Use of Trade Capital in the 'dead Season' -- Trading Activities Involving More Capital -- The Social Background to the Employment of Capital -- Conclusions -- 13. Capital Saving, and Credit in a Guatemalan and a Mexicanindian Peasant Society -- I. Cantel -- II. Amatenango Del Valle -- III -- 14. Ethnic Difference and Peasant Economy in British Guiana -- Introduction -- Some General Features of Guianese Village Communities -- Capital, Saving and Credit in the Negro Communities -- Capital, Saving and Credit in the Indian Villages -- Some Reasons for Differences in Economic Response -- The Contemporary Scene and the Direction of Change -- 15. Capital, Saving and Credit Among Mauritian Indians -- Mauritius and Its Economy -- Ownership and Management of Cane Land -- Livestock -- Other Sources of Income -- Some Sources of Borrowing -- The 'Roulement' System in the Villages -- 'Roulement' in the Towns -- 16. Capital Formation, Saving and Credit Inindian Agricultural Society -- 17. The Study of Peasant Economic Systems: Some Concluding Comments and Questions -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Firth, Raymond Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2005 ISBN 9780415330152
Language:
English
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