Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa

AvFranklin Obeng-Odoom

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-26
Mått:158 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108491990

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Franklin Obeng-Odoom is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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'Franklin Obeng-Odoom follows a growing cadre of scholarship generated by African scholars who are particularly engaging African economic issues in a distinctively, self-determined way. In doing exactly that, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa is a brilliant book that intellectually grapples with the continent's sustained least developed ranking in the world. Be that as it may, the book also cleverly avoids – and actually effectively debunks – lazy, neoclassical explanations attributing Africa's poverty and inequality to its backwardness and traditional culture. Instead, Obeng-Odoom uniquely formulates a refreshing alternative thesis about African economic prospects using what he refers to as a new theory of black stratification economics. To this end, Obeng's deep structuralist analysis delicately reveals both the historical and continuing external expropriation and transfers of African land, labor, and capital as the source of the problem.' Rita Kiki Edozie, The John W McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, UMass Boston

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Part I. The Problem: Introduction. The Global South in a 'compartmentalised world': 1. The foundations for a new beginning; Part II. Problematic Explanations and Solutions: 2. Property economics; 3. Land reform; 4. Human capital; 5. International trade; 6. Economic growth; Part III. Alternatives: 7. Socialism; 8. Africanisms; Concluding the groundwork for a new political economy of the Global South; Bibliography.