Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society

by Jean Ensminger

Book Overview

Economists have devoted considerable effort to explaining how a market economy functions, but they have given a good deal less attention to explaining how a market economy is formed. In Making a Market, Jean Ensminger analyses the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. Professor Ensminger employs new institutional economic analysis to assess the impact of new market institutions on production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521574269
• ISBN13: 9780521574266
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"