market structure and social organization in a Ghanaian marketing system
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 6 (4) , 682-701
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00050
Abstract
Models of market structure, borrowed from industrial organization economists, are employed to analyze the relationship between social organization and economic conditions in a Ghanaian marketing system. Comparative analysis of vegetable, fish, and yam marketing identifies three distinct modes of social organization—pure competition, ethnic monopolization, and associational monopolization — and explains differences in social patterns in terms of underlying supply and distribution structures.Keywords
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