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Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Janet Tai Landa
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Hardback. Economic Success of Overseas Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Ethnic Cooperation, Competition and Conflict Num Pages: 371 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 742.
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic ... Read more
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642540189
SKU
V9783642540189
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Ref
99-15
About Janet Tai Landa
Landa's research interests: Law-and-economics of informal institutions for promoting exchange; Economics of trust, ethnicity, and identity. See her book: Janet Tai Landa, Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift - Exchange. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Honors received: Visiting Professor, East China University of ... Read more
Reviews for Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
“This book, examining Bangladeshi labour migration to Singapore, contributes significantly to our understanding of the growing phenomenon of migration within Asia. … In this book, author Mizanur Rahman departs from the economic narrative that is dominant in the migration literature to explain the drivers of Bangladeshi migration and instead relies on social and cultural explanations in his analysis. The strength ... Read more