Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
Business & Finance, Economics, Urban & Regional, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Economic Policy
| Author: | Janet Tai Landa | ISBN: | 9783642540196 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Springer | Language: | English |
| Author: | Janet Tai Landa |
| ISBN: | 9783642540196 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Springer |
| Language: | English |
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles.
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles.
