Markets, Class and Social Change

Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia

B. Crow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

265 Seiten

2001 | 1st ed. 2001
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-42617-1 (ISBN)

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. More generally, the book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and directions.

BEN CROW is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written or co-authored several books including Sharing the Ganges, Third World Atlas, Survival and Change in the Third World and The Food Question.

List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgements Glossary Exploring Market Diversity Class and Change in the South Asian Countryside The Diversity of Exchange Grain Outflows: Advantage Rich, Disadvantage Poor The Markets of Adversity or Why the Rich Don't Buy Rice Why are Big Traders Big and Small Traders Small? Why is Agrarian Growth Uneven? Local Consequences of Global Policy Diverse Markets and Public Action Appendix References Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	25 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 265 p. 25 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Asia • government policy • growth • Network • Networks • Poverty • Trade • Trader • Trading
ISBN-10	1-349-42617-2 / 1349426172
ISBN-13	978-1-349-42617-1 / 9781349426171
Zustand	Neuware