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The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development

Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana

By Emily Chamlee-Wright

Published October 9th 1997 by Routledge – 224 pages

Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

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Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported.

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.

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'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

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Emily Chamlee-Wright is Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College, Wisconsin, USA

Name: The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development: Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Emily Chamlee-Wright. Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported. The economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of...
Categories: Economics, Economics and Development