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Dear Gerald: I would like to order the new book. There is no information about this book in the web site. Please send me detail information to order. Sam Ock Park Department of Geography Seoul National University Seoul 151-742, Korea Fax: +82-2-886-4556 Gerard Greenway wrote: > To: Economic Geography > > Some members of the list may be interested in our new book, _Institutions, > Social Norms and Economic Development_. I am reproducing the back cover copy > below. > > If you would like a paper leaflet drop me your material address. > > It is the first volume in our new Studies in Development Economics series. > > Best wishes > > Gerard > > Harwood Academic Publishers > [log in to unmask] > > _________________________ > > Institutions, Social Norms, and Economic Development > > Jean-Philippe Platteau > > Jean-Philippe Platteau's Institutions, Social Norms, and Economic > Development is a major step in our progress. It combines the author's sound > knowledge of the necessary economic theory with the essential theory of > other social sciences enriched by his extensive work in the field. > Douglass C. North, > from the Foreword > > In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that > well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of > fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex > abrupto but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop are not only suitable > practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral > environment without which generalized trust is difficult to establish. The > cultural endowment of societies as they have developed over their particular > histories is bound to play a major role in this regard, and the matter of > cultural endowment is one of the central themes of this book. > > On the other hand, division of labour does not only require well-enforced > property rights and trust in economic dealings. It is also critically > conditioned by the thickness of economic space, itself dependent on > population density. This provides the second major theme of the volume: > market development, including the development of private property rights, is > not possible, or will remain very incomplete, if populations are thinly > spread over large areas of land. The book makes special reference to > Sub-Saharan Africa. > > Institutions, Social Norms, and Economic Development is a significant > addition to the literature and will be of wide interest to social scientists > concerned with the economics of development and the relations between > institutions and economic performance. > > Jean-Philippe Platteau is Professor of Economics at the University of Namur, > Belgium. His previous work includes (with J.M. Baland) Halting Degradation > of Natural Resources - Is There a Role for Rural Communities? (Oxford: > Clarendon Press, 1996) and numerous articles in academic journals. His main > interest lies in institutional issues at the border between economics and > other social sciences. > > Published August 2000 > Hardback. 384 pages > ISBN: 90-5823-058-9 > US$60 / GBP41 > > Studies in Development Economics, volume 1. Ed. Kaushik Basu > ISSN: 1562-3440 > > harwood academic publishers > A member of The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group > http://www.gbhap.com > > Gerard Greenway > commissioning editor, social sciences > Harwood Academic > [log in to unmask] > Tel: +44 (0)118 952 0314 (direct line) > http://www.gbhap.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%