| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Exploring Market Diversity; 2 Class and Change in the South Asian Countryside; 3 The Diversity of Exchange; 4 Grain Outflows: Advantage Rich, Disadvantage Poor; 5 The Markets of Adversity, or Why the Rich Don't Buy Rice; 6 Why are Big Traders Big and Small Traders Small?; 7 Why is Agrarian Growth Uneven?; 8 Local Consequences of Global Policy; 9 Diverse Markets and Public Action; Appendix: Identifying Class; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. More generally, the book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and directions |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Markets -- South Asia
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Merchants -- South Asia
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Rural poor -- South Asia
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Markets -- Social aspects -- South Asia
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Social classes -- South Asia
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Economic history
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Markets
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Markets -- Social aspects
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Merchants
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Rural poor
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Social classes
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403900845 |
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1403900841 |
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