{"product_id":"exchange-and-markets-in-early-economic-development-informal-economy-in-the-three-new-guineas-9781800739680","title":"Exchange and Markets in Early Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea. This was problematic, because ‘the market’ was scarcely institutionalized, and traditional modes of exchange persisted stubbornly. Rather than conforming with post-colonial economic ideology, the subjected people pushed back against imposed bureaucracy to practice informal and hybrid modes of economic activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“It is a sound piece of scholarship, directed at an interesting question with important policy implications, which ranges over a broad field of largely historical data and relevant literature. It is well written and makes a significant contribution to the literature of Papua New Guinea and to that of comparative development economics.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Ronald May\u003c\/strong\u003e, The Australian National University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Maps\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Acronyms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eAn ‘Informal’ Economic History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Economic Informality: An Idea and Its Relevance to Melanesia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Keith Hart and the Idea of Informality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Precursors of the Informal Economy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Melanesia in the Trade of the Malay Archipelago\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Melanesian Singularity: Insights from Neoclassical Economics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional Trade and Exchange in Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e National Capitalism in the Three New Guineas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: From Early Colonisation to the Pacific War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eGerman and Australian New Guinea before the Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chinese in New Guinea before the Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hubert Murray and the Contending Moralities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Idea of a Town in Anglo-Papua\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/strong\u003e. Papuans in Town before the Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/strong\u003e. Hidden Valleys: A New White Highlands?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Informality in the Era of Economic Development\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Economic Development: Ideology and Apologetics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Obsolescence and the Preconditions for Urbanism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Remaking Port Moresby: The Formal Town\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e An Informal Town: Villages and Settlements\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reconstruction in Rabaul and the Seeds of Post-War Growth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/strong\u003e Informal Economy on the Gazelle at the End of the Colonial Era\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chinese Enterprise in Rabaul: Apotheosis and Decline\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bureaucracy and Market Economy on the Frontier\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 21.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gorokans and Coffee in the ‘Lucky Place’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 22.\u003c\/strong\u003e Formality and Informality in the Coffee Economy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 23.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Triumph of Capitalism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Birth Pangs: All These Are the Beginning of Sorrows\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 24\u003c\/strong\u003e. The Preparatory Idea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 25.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hart, Faber and the Informal Economy in Port Moresby\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 26.\u003c\/strong\u003e An Uneasy Trio of Formality, Informality and Hybridity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 27\u003c\/strong\u003e. Dilemmas and Consequences of Urban Growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042755543383,"sku":"9781800739680","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800739680.jpg?v=1750955489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exchange-and-markets-in-early-economic-development-informal-economy-in-the-three-new-guineas-9781800739680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}