Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020

Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s book, Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020) challenges prevailing ideas on existing development policies and attempts to provide new alternative perspectives for more equitable economic development in Africa. The economi...

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Autor principal: Masaki, Toyomu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2021
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Book Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914385/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40844-021-00203-7
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description Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s book, Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020) challenges prevailing ideas on existing development policies and attempts to provide new alternative perspectives for more equitable economic development in Africa. The economic concepts on which the author relies for this purpose are stratification economics and the ideas of Henry George (1839–1897). In this review, after a brief introduction to these two frameworks, the contents of the book are presented. Next, the significance of the author’s concepts is explained, and the reviewer’s comments regarding the author’s views are provided.
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spelling pubmed-79143852021-03-01 Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020 Masaki, Toyomu Evolut Inst Econ Rev Book Review Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s book, Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020) challenges prevailing ideas on existing development policies and attempts to provide new alternative perspectives for more equitable economic development in Africa. The economic concepts on which the author relies for this purpose are stratification economics and the ideas of Henry George (1839–1897). In this review, after a brief introduction to these two frameworks, the contents of the book are presented. Next, the significance of the author’s concepts is explained, and the reviewer’s comments regarding the author’s views are provided. Springer Japan 2021-02-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7914385/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40844-021-00203-7 Text en © Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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