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1999 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Published in: Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Underlying the current tidal wave of market liberalisation in the Second and Third Worlds is a belief in the ubiquity of entrepreneurial behaviour. Does a market in staple foodstuffs automatically blossom when state controls are removed? It is argued here that, in Tanzania, rather than having any spontaneous generation of entrepreneurial behaviour, Tanzanian grain markets are coalescing as physical impediments, and cultural, social and political institutions give way.

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Title
Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania
Author
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Copyright Year
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book
Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-27275-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-27273-0

Copyright Year: 1999

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27273-0_6