Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

Douglas Rimmer, Robert H. Bates

African Economic History · 1982 · 1.8K citations · 0 references

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Abstract

To be underdeveloped is to be poor. It is also to be agrarian. Markets and States in Tropical Africa represents an effort to comprehend the economics of development by analyzing the politics of agrarian societies.