Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-564859-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten

This book reflects a process of inter-disciplinary dialogue between historians, economists and anthropologists, at a time when the discipline of economic history in South Asia has entered something of a crisis. It is a collection of well-researched, in-depth essays, which are at the same time concerned with linking up their specific concerns with larger issues of the institutional trajectory of South Asia. Traditionally, economics has neglected the role played by institutions in linking micro- and macro-levels of economic functioning. Here, authors like A. K. Bagchi, Claude Markovits, G. Balachandran, Barabar Harriss-White, Sumit Guha and David Ludden bring their collective expertise to bear on the issue.

This book focuses on the relationship between producers and their institutional environments. Its ten essays discuss the context in which agriculturalists, sailors, pearl-fishers, weavers and smiths and modern industrial firms operate and why some respond to their contexts in one way and others in another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Burton

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte