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Pre-colonial West A...
Pre-colonial West African Inflation, Again
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
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- 2016
- 2016
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: African Studies Association 2016 Conference.
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Abstract
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- This paper studies the issue of inflation in pre-colonial West Africa. In a recent publication, it has argued that there was substantial inflation in West Africa already in the seventeenth century. In this paper, data from the Gold Coast is reported, in order to show that the prices of slaves, used in recent previous research for analysing inflation, is a very bad proxy for the prices of other traded commodities. Contrasting the case of the Gold Coast to that of Dahomey, it is furthermore shown that different societies in West Africa experienced different trends around the same period of time, cautioning against generalizations about broader regions.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Africa
- pre-colonial
- markets
- inflation
- prices
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