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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics - Volume 1: Context and Concepts (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics - Volume 1: Context and Concepts (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a
profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers
in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts
in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of
Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the
well-known limitations of economic data across the continent.
Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable,
and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs,
and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed
to predict the Great Recession. Times have changed: many leading
researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject
of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise
and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness,
complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations,
rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities
and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point
that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier
to researchers from around the world. In collecting some of the
most authoritative statements about the science of economics and
its concepts in the African context, this handbook (the first of
two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting
topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for
knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and
approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic
thinking on Africa, and Africa's contribution to the discipline.
The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor,
most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose
diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of
philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists. The set of
analyses and reflections presented here try to endow each subject
with depth and discovery.
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