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Underdevelopment of Africa: Comments on Methodology

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle

Publikováno v: History in Africa. 3:157-162

One of the more striking recent trends in the study of African history has been the mushrooming of studies focusing on the “underdevelopment” of Africa (or some part of it) following the publication of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Af

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https://doi.org/10.2307/3171566

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Informal Savings Mobilization in Africa

Autor: Laurie Cohen, Marvin P. Miracle, Diane S. Miracle

Publikováno v: Economic Development and Cultural Change. 28(4):701-24

There is mounting evidence that the informal sector of African economies is far larger and more complex than previously thought. This study, a preliminary report on a larger study of mobilization of resources in the informal sector of African economi

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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE TRIBAL ECONOMIES OF THE CONGO BASIN

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle

Publikováno v: Economic Inquiry. 1:103-113

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1963.tb01006.x

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Interpretation of Evidence on the Introduction of Maize into West Africa

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle

Publikováno v: Africa. 33:132-135

Opening ParagraphFrank Willett, in scrutiny of the evidence cited by M. D. W. Jeffreys to support the hypothesis of pre-Columbian maize in Africa, has helpfully reopened the controversy concerning the introduction of maize to tropical Africa, but on

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https://doi.org/10.2307/1158284

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Backward-Sloping Labor-Supply Functions and African Economic Behavior

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle, Bruce Fetter

Publikováno v: Economic Development and Cultural Change. 18:240-251

It was long held that economic man was not found among the indigenous populations of Africa. In the early years of colonization, statements to this effect were common. A French governor of the Ivory Coast complained in 1911 that "the indigenous popul

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https://doi.org/10.1086/450422

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'Subsistence Agriculture': Analytical Problems and Alternative Concepts

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle

Publikováno v: American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 50(2):292-310

This article argues that the concept of “subsistence agriculture”—widely encountered and long used in the literature—is not meaningful enough to be analytically useful as usually employed and should be abandoned. Particularly important for po

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http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1237543

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The Introduction and Spread of Maize in Africa

Autor: Marvin P. Miracle

Publikováno v: The Journal of African History. 6:39-55

Linguistic evidence strongly suggests that maize penetrated the interior of tropical Africa from the coastal regions, but the timing and mode of its introduction cannot be established. The commonly repeated assertion that the Portuguese brought maize

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700005326

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