TY - BOOK ID - 609111 TI - Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa PY - 2014 SN - 9781782382706 9781782382713 1782382704 1782382712 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Economic order KW - Economic structure KW - Economic sociology KW - Economic conditions. Economic development KW - Nigeria KW - Hausa (African people) KW - Economic development KW - Social networks KW - Haoussa (Peuple d'Afrique) KW - Hausa (Peuple d'Afrique) KW - Développement économique KW - Réseaux sociaux KW - Economic conditions KW - Conditions économiques KW - Nigeria, Northern KW - Nigeria (Nord) KW - Social conditions KW - Conditions sociales KW - #SBIB:327.4H61 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Abakwariga (African people) KW - Afuno (African people) KW - Haoussa (African people) KW - Hausaawaa (African people) KW - Hausas KW - Hausawa (African people) KW - Haussa (African people) KW - Hawsa (African people) KW - Mgbakpa (African people) KW - Ethnology KW - Derde wereld: economische ontwikkeling KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Northern Nigeria (Region) KW - Développement économique KW - Réseaux sociaux KW - Conditions économiques KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:609111 AB - The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity in 1977-1979, and the macro-economic decline of 1985, 1996 and 1998. The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics. ER -