The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics
Volume 1: Context and Concepts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 July 2015
- ISBN 9780199687114
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages864 pages
- Size 253x181x51 mm
- Weight 1620 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures and Tables 0
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Short description:
Identifies the central themes, issues, questions, and methods of analysis of economics, and discusses how they have been approached in the African context over time. Reviews and document how the study of African societies has contributed to and shaped major fields of the discipline of economics.
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For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession.
Times have changed: many leading researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness, complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations, rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier to researchers from around the world.
In collecting some of the most authoritative statements about the science of economics and its concepts in the African context, this handbook (the first of two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic thinking on Africa, and Africa's contribution to the discipline. The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor, most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists. The set of analyses and reflections presented here try to endow each subject with depth and discovery.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Africa, the Next Intellectual Frontier
Part I: Concepts
Economics as an African Science: An Epistemological Analysis
Households and Income in Africa
Transformation of African Farm-cum-Family Structures
The Economics of Marriage in North Africa: A Unifying Theoretical Framework
The Theory of the Firm in the African Context
Markets and Urban Provisioning
Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle
Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa
Inclusive Growth in Africa
Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Dimensions of African Inequality
Inclusive Growth and Developmental Governance: The Next African Frontiers
Economics and the Study of Corruption in Africa
Thoughts on Development: The African Experience
The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa
Part II: Methodological Issues
Principles of Economics: African Challenges
Economics and Culture in the African Context
The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills
Modeling African Economies: A DSGE Approach
Measuring Economic Progress in the African Context
Measuring Structural Economic Vulnerability in Africa
Measuring Democracy: An Economic Approach
Measurement and Analysis of Competitiveness
Part III: Historical Trajectories and Economic Landscape
Africa's New Economic Opportunities
Tigers or Tiger Prawns? The African growth 'tragedy' and 'renaissance' in perspective
The Economic Legacies of the African Slave Trades
The Economics of Colonialism in Africa
The Public Private Interface
Natural Resources: Precious Boon or Precious Ban?
Volatility and Vulnerability
Africa's Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities
Environmental and Climate Change Issues in Africa
Informality, Growth and Development in Africa
Capitalism and African Business Cultures
African Monetary Unions: An Obituary
Part IV: The Economics of Political Transformation
The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-2012
The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa
The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions
The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa
The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa
The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening
Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development
The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa
