2017
DOI: 10.1017/s1744137416000503
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Institutions and the colonisation of Africa: some lessons from French colonial economics

Abstract: This paper will propose a comparative analysis of the conceptualization of colonisation that could shed light on the contemporary economic analysis of the colonial legacy in Africa. More specifically, this article will propose a return to old debates on colonisation, with a special focus on French 19th century political economy. Three main institutionalist lessons can be drawn from a careful analysis of French colonial economics of the 19th century. First, by institutions, the authors referred not only to the … Show more

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“…In the African context, the weakness of property-rights-defining state institutions on land is wellknown issue (Boone 2003(Boone , 2014Peters 2013;Alden Wily 2006) and has links to the evolution of the colonial tax state. 6 Colonial powers confronted a system of property rights that was radically different to those that had existed in Europe (Boone 2003;Zouache 2018). The dominant economic activity was non-sedentary agriculture, undertaken in a mixture of centralized and decentralized political units with multitudes of property rights underpinned by traditional authorities (Bates 1983;Berry 1993;Boone 2003Boone , 2014.…”
Section: Bifurcated Tenurial System and Tax Outcomes In Sub-saharan A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the African context, the weakness of property-rights-defining state institutions on land is wellknown issue (Boone 2003(Boone , 2014Peters 2013;Alden Wily 2006) and has links to the evolution of the colonial tax state. 6 Colonial powers confronted a system of property rights that was radically different to those that had existed in Europe (Boone 2003;Zouache 2018). The dominant economic activity was non-sedentary agriculture, undertaken in a mixture of centralized and decentralized political units with multitudes of property rights underpinned by traditional authorities (Bates 1983;Berry 1993;Boone 2003Boone , 2014.…”
Section: Bifurcated Tenurial System and Tax Outcomes In Sub-saharan A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More sensitive to complex postcolonial societies, historical, and evolutionary, the critical postcolonial institutional economics methodology for land research is an approach that was used by J.K. Galbraith in his study of India published as The Nature of Mass Poverty (Galbraith 1979). Its strength, as recent studies (Sneyd 2014;Zouache 2018) show, is that it takes local institutions seriously without presuming that they must evolve into Western capitalist institutions. Studying 'land' in this approach also entails studying the economic system and how changing norms about land help to evolve the economic system itself.…”
Section: Investigating the Land Tenure System In Indonesiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…So, this paper attempts the task. In doing so, it adopts a 'critical postcolonial institutional economic methodology' (for other successful applications, see Zouache 2018;Obeng-Odoom 2016, Pollard et al 2011) and uses field data from Indonesia, the case study area. The data contradict claims made by hedonists in three ways.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, the design of policies aimed at improving financial system development in African countries needs to consider that path-dependence and institutional complementarity effects are likely to impact on the outcome of such reforms. Abdallah Zouache's (2017) contribution, entitled 'Institutions and colonization of Africa: some lessons from French colonial economics', assesses the links between institutions and colonization in French colonial economics in the perspective of history of economic thought. He asks what we can learn from French colonial economics in the 19th century to better understand the colonial legacy in Africa.…”
Section: The Contents Of This Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Abdallah Zouache's (2017) contribution, entitled ‘Institutions and colonization of Africa: some lessons from French colonial economics’, assesses the links between institutions and colonization in French colonial economics in the perspective of history of economic thought. He asks what we can learn from French colonial economics in the 19th century to better understand the colonial legacy in Africa.…”
Section: The Contents Of This Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%