1st Edition

The Moral Economy of Trade Ethnicity and Developing Markets

Edited By Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader Copyright 1994
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The Moral Economy of Trade (1994) investigates the agents of trade during the process of transformation from an indigenous rural subsistence economy into a cash-crop-producing market economy and a more-or-less integrated market-system in Southeast Asia. Drawing on earlier anthropological and sociological studies of trade and markets in tribal and peasant societies, it makes use of a new... Read more

Part 1. The Sociology of Trade: the Traders’ Dilemma  Introduction Hans-Dieter Evers and Heiko Schrader  1. The Traders’ Dilemma: a Theory of the Social Transformation of Markets and Society Hans-Dieter Evers  2. The Traders’ Dilemma: the Perspective of the Longue Durée Tilman Schiel  3. The Discussion of Trade in Science Heiko Schrader  4. The Political Economy of Trade Peter Preston  Part 2. Solutions to the Traders’ Dilemma  Introduction Hans-Dieter Schrader  5. Javanese Petty Trade Hans-Dieter Evers  6. The Emergence of Trade in a Peasant Society: Javanese Transmigrants in Kalimantan Hans-Dieter Evers  7. Clove Traders and Peasants in Simeuleu, Aceh Wolfgang Clauss  8. The ‘Great Transformation’ in Minahasa, Indonesia Helmet Buchholt  9. Trade Routes, Trust and Tactics: Chinese Traders in Singapore Thomas Menkhoff  10. Chinese Trading Firms in Transition Wolfgang Jamann  11. Chinese Rice Traders in Thailand Pannee Auanskul  12. A Himalayan Trading Community in Southeast Asia Heiko Schrader  13. The Creation of an Outsiders’ Myth: the Mudalali of Sri Lanka Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn  14. The Chettiar Moneylenders in Singapore Hans-Dieter Evers, Jayarani Pavadarayan and Heiko Schrader  Part 3. The Traders’ Dilemma in City and Nation  Introduction Hans-Dieter Evers  15. Traders in the City: Power and Social Creativity Rüdiger Korff  16. Trade and Conflict in the Third World Helmut Buchholt and Ulrich Mai  17. Trade, Market Expansions and Political Pluralism: Southeast Asia and Europe Compared Hans-Dieter Evers

Biography

Hans-Dieter Evers and Heiko Schrader