Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development

John D. Conroy has been an economist and student of 'development' since 1968. He has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia for lengthy periods and has also had field experience in South and East Asia, and in some of the small Pacific island nations. He is a visiting scholar at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms



Introduction: An ‘Informal’ Economic History



Part I: Economic Informality: An Idea and Its Relevance to Melanesia



Chapter 1. Keith Hart and the Idea of Informality

Chapter 2. Precursors of the Informal Economy

Chapter 3. Melanesia in the Trade of the Malay Archipelago

Chapter 4. Melanesian Singularity: Insights from Neoclassical Economics

Chapter 5. Traditional Trade and Exchange in Papua New Guinea

Chapter 6. National Capitalism in the Three New Guineas



Part II: From Early Colonisation to the Pacific War



Chapter 7. German and Australian New Guinea before the Pacific War

Chapter 8. Chinese in New Guinea before the Pacific War

Chapter 9. Hubert Murray and the Contending Moralities

Chapter 10. The Idea of a Town in Anglo-Papua

Chapter 11. Papuans in Town before the Pacific War

Chapter 12. Hidden Valleys: A New White Highlands?



Part III: Informality in the Era of Economic Development



Chapter 13. Economic Development: Ideology and Apologetics

Chapter 14. Obsolescence and the Preconditions for Urbanism

Chapter 15. Remaking Port Moresby: The Formal Town

Chapter 16. An Informal Town: Villages and Settlements

Chapter 17. Reconstruction in Rabaul and the Seeds of Post-War Growth

Chapter 18. Informal Economy on the Gazelle at the End of the Colonial Era

Chapter 19. Chinese Enterprise in Rabaul: Apotheosis and Decline

Chapter 20. Bureaucracy and Market Economy on the Frontier

Chapter 21. Gorokans and Coffee in the ‘Lucky Place’

Chapter 22. Formality and Informality in the Coffee Economy

Chapter 23. The Triumph of Capitalism?



Part IV: Birth Pangs: All These Are the Beginning of Sorrows



Chapter 24. The Preparatory Idea

Chapter 25. Hart, Faber and the Informal Economy in Port Moresby

Chapter 26. An Uneasy Trio of Formality, Informality and Hybridity

Chapter 27. Dilemmas and Consequences of Urban Growth



Conclusion



References

Index