Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-exchange
- ISBN-10
- 047210361X
- ISBN-13
- 9780472103614
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Janet T. Landa
Description
How ethnic kin-based trading networks can rely on trust when a well-developed framework of contract laws is missing
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