Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal - 1930–1985

A 1993 study of the ways in which the exercise of state power in Africa has inhibited economic growth, focusing on Senegal.

List of contents

List of tables and figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Capital and contingencies of post-colonial politics; 2. The colonial market; 3. Consolidation of a regime: neo-colonialism in the 1960s; 4. Growth of Senegal's textile industry, 1960-75; 5. Reappropriation of the state: the 1970s; 6. Demise of the Dakar textile industry; 7 Conclusion: states, capital and capitalist states; Appendix: exchange rates; References; Index.

Summary

In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power has been used to structure economic production in ways that have tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. This 1993 book examines the ways in which the exercise of state power in Africa has inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case of Senegal.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Boone, Boone Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.1992
• EAN: 9780521410786
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41078-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Illustrations: 4 b/w illus. 23 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government