Economic success of overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia : ethnic cooperation, competition and conflict : integrating the social sciences with evolutionary biology / Janet Tai Landa.
"This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchan...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Springer,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3642540198 9783642540196 |