Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice

Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Visible Hands; B. Harriss-White PART ONE: EXCHANGE Village Level Exchange: Lessons from South India; W. Olsen Social Stratification and Exchange in West African Conditions: A Participatory Approach to the Classification of Producers and Net Consumers of Marketed Surplus; B. Christiansen PART TWO: MARKETS AS SYSTEMS The Post Harvest System in Indonesia; P. Magrath Researching the System in Bangladesh; B. Crow Rapid Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania; D. F. Bryceson PART THREE: PRICE PERFORMANCE AND MARKET EFFICIENCY Unstandardised Measures and the Analysis of Price Efficiency: An Application in Benin; B. Christiansen The Use of Hedonic Price Analysis in Agricultural Research: Market Prices and the Quality Characteristics of Beans in Colombia; L. Portugal and M. Oppen Large Databases: The Nineteenth-Century English Com Returns: ` Not Worth the Paper that they are Written On'?; L. Adrian The Analysis of Integration: New Methodologies for Domestic Commodity Markets; T. Palaskas Testing Market Integration: Some Critical Comments; G. Jones PART FOUR: MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS, MARKETS AS INSTITUTIONS Power in Peasant Markets; B. Harriss-White Gender, Markets and Fieldwork in Developing Countries: With Special Reference to West Africa; E. Robson The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria; P. Clough The Black Box of the State: Studying State Interventions in Food Markets; J. Mooij Epilogue: Best and Worst Practice. Surprises and Lessons; B Harriss-White Index