Beyond the miracle of the market : the political economy of agrarian development in Kenya

Author(s)

• Bates, Robert H.

Bibliographic Information

Beyond the miracle of the market : the political economy of agrarian development in Kenya

Robert H. Bates

（Political economy of institutions and decisions）

Cambridge University Press, 1989

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the political economy of Kenya from the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s to the tragic droughts of the 1980s, with emphasis upon the political and economic origins of institutions and the role of these institutions in Kenya's economic development.

Table of Contents

• The demand for revolution - the agrarian origins of Mau Mau (Appendix I: Kinship and stratification)
• material interest and political preference - the agrarian origins of political conflict
• institutional structure, agriculture development, and political conflict
• from drought to famine - dynamics of subsistence crises (Appendix II: the buying centre programme)
• the politics of food crises (Appendix III: famine, Meru, August 1984).

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA10147064
• ISBN:
  • 0521342570
• LCCN: 88028537
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 203 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD2126.5
  • DC19 : 338.1/86762
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Kenya
  • LCSH : Agriculture and state -- Kenya
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01170702