Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 MARKETS AS AN EXTENSION OF CULTURE -- chapter 2 ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE -- Ghanaian economic performance through an Austrian lens -- chapter 3 THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- chapter 4 INDIGENOUS CREDIT, MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETIES, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- Prospects and impediments -- chapter 5 TOWARDS AN INTERPRETIVE ECONOMICS: THREE PROFILES OF URBAN MARKET WOMEN 160 167 172 -- Three profiles of urban market women / Abiba Anna Mary -- chapter 6 CONCLUSION -- Culture and economic development within the subjectivist framework
Summary
This book argues that international aid programmes are unsuccessful for indigenous African institutions because it is based on mainstream economic theory which is fundamentally acultural which does not understand their cultural context
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index