Traders' dilemmas and development: A variety of solutions

New Political Economy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 387-404

  Grabowski, Richard ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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GAME THEORY; TRADER'S DILEMMA;

EID: 0031409045     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563469708406314     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. The traders' dilemma referred to here is substantially different from that referred to in Hans-Dieter Evans & Heike Schrader (Eds), The Moral Economy of Trade: Ethnicity and Developing Markets (Routledge, 1994).
2. For a discussion of transaction costs, see Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
3. David M. Kreps, 'Corporate culture and economic theory', in: James E. Alt & Kenneth A. Shepsle (Eds), Perspectives on Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 90-143.
4. Mark Granovetter, 'Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness', American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91 (1985), pp. 481-510.
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7. Robert H. Frank, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions (W. W. Norton, 1988).
8. This concept is taken from Richard Grabowski, 'Agriculture, markets, and economic development', unpublished manuscript, undated.
9. Brian Levy, Export Traders, Market Development, and Industrial Expansion, Research Memorandum Series, Center for Development Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, March 1989.
10. A related approach to analysing trade between groups can be found in Avner Greif, 'Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualistic Societies', Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102 (1994), pp. 912-50.
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14. Granovetter, 'Economic Action and Social Structure'.
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16. Langlois & Robertson, Firms, Markets, and Economic Change, p. 7.
17. Ibid., p. 16.
18. Oliver Williamson, Markets and Hierarchies (Free Press, 1975).
19. Feld, 'The Focused Organization of Social Ties', p. 1016.
20. Ibid.
21. A similar idea is proposed in Brian Levy, 'Transaction Costs, the Size of Firms, and Industrial Policy: Lessons from a Comparative Case Study of the Footwear Industry in Korea and Taiwan', Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 34 (1991), pp. 151-78.
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25. See Richard Grabowski, 'Prewar industrialization in Japan', unpublished manuscript, undated.
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27. Levy, 'Transaction Costs, the Size of Firms and Industrial Policy'.
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