Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal: 1930-1985

by Catherine Boone

Book Overview

In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power has been used to structure economic production in ways that have tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. In this 1993 book, Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise of state power has inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case of Senegal. She traces changes in the political economy of Senegal from the heyday of colonial merchant capital in the 1930s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030390
• ISBN13: 9780521030397
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"