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Rapports et recherches
janvier, 1998
Afrique sub-saharienne, Guinée, Amérique septentrionale, États-Unis d'Amérique
The core thesis is that Western neoclassical economics and law (particularly Anglo-American) have a peculiar cultural history that biases Western-trained economists and lawyers against common property systems like those found among Africans and American Indians. This Western cultural bias is expressed through the recurrent focus on individuals as atomistic and independent of each other in contract and property law, as well as in economic theory.