Description
| Product ID: | 9781108709996 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity |
| Title: | Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa |
| Authors: | Author: Franklin Obeng-Odoom |
| Page Count: | 378 |
| Subjects: | Economic growth, Economic growth, Development economics and emerging economies, Development economics & emerging economies, Africa |
| Description: | Inequality and poverty in Africa is typically explained as a function of the lack of human capital, the lack of physical capital, and natural capital problems. The book explores and challenges this convention while offering alternative frames to explain persistent poverty across the continent. In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom seeks to carefully explain, engage, and systematically question the existing explanations of inequalities within Africa, and between Africa and the rest of the world using insights from the emerging field of stratification economics. Drawing on multiple sources - including archival and historical material and a wide range of survey data - he develops a distinctive approach that combines key concepts in original institutional economics, such as reasonable value, property, and the distribution of wealth, with other insights into Africa''s development and underdevelopment. While looking at the Africa-wide situation, Obeng-Odoom also analyzes the experiences of inequalities within specific countries. Comprehensive and engaging, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa is a useful resource for teaching and research on Africa and the Global South. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-14 |
