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One of the principal reasons why international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful is that imported solutions are not based upon the indigenous institutions in African countries. In IThe Cultural Foundations of Economic Theory, Emily Chamlee-Wright argues that connections between these institutions and the cultural context which produces and sustains them has been misunderstood by mainstream economic theory which is fundamentally acultural. Instead Chalmlee-Wright argues, the economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of economic development and other market processes. The author draws on extensive ethnographic field research as well as a challenging and original critique of mainstream neoclassical analysis in a detailed case study of women in Ghana.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #4425439 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
'This is a good and serious contribution to the debate on economic development in Ghana and on the Austrian school more generally, which deserves to be widely read.' - Modern African Studies, Vol 36, No. 4 98

This is a good and serious contribution to the debate on economic development in Ghana and on the Austrian school more generally, which deserves to be widely read. - Modern African Studies, Vol 36, No. 4 98