Professions and Social Order: Markets, States and Healers in Burkina Faso (Routledge African Studies)

by RobertDingwall (Author), NatewindéSawadogo (Author)

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  2019

  $122.85

  This study asks a fundamental theoretical and empirical question--re-posing and re-contextualizing in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa: can markets generate the institutions on which they depend for their effectiveness, or do these require the active intervention of a strong, purposeful and democratic state?