Böcker av Emily Chamlee-Wright

How do societies achieve a level of complexity, coordination, and social intelligence that far surpasses the capacity of individual human intelligence? This title addresses this question in the context of civil society generally, in which we cannot always rely on market prices to guide our way.

This book argues that international aid programmes are unsuccessful for indigenous African institutions because it is based on mainstream economic theory which is fundamentally acultural which does not understand their cultural context.