Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland

by PaulClough (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $197.20

  This book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital...