Sara S Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 75892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara S Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara S |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY S S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Entrepreneurial Labour
Entrepreneurship – defined here as the process of managing, and often launching, an income-generating entity – is often depicted as a combination of personal attributes that enable certain individuals to perceive and act on economic opportunities more quickly and effectively than others do, and economic conditions in which economic opportunities are abundant and widely accessible. The present chapter seeks to shift the focus from innovation and i…
Entrepreneurial Labour
Sixteen Entrepreneurial Labour
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Power in Ghana from Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
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No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
Fathers Work for Their Sons
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa: A Review Essay
Recent assessments of the performance and prospects of African economies portray a deepening economic crisis centered on the problem of food supplies. During the last ten years, a rapidly rising number of Africans have had an increasingly difficult time getting enough to eat. By all accounts, domestic food supplies are falling further and further behind domestic needs; both governments and consumers face serious problems in procuring the kinds an…
Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria
The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa
Peasants in Africa
Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers
Inequality and Underdevelopment in Africa: A Suggested Approach
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Supply response reconsidered: Cocoa in Western Nigeria, 1909–44
This essay uses time‐series data on cocoa plantings in Western Nigeria to re‐examine some popular conclusions about the price responsiveness of farmers in underdeveloped economies. Annual variations in the rate of planting were found to be more closely related to farmers’ income from cocoa sales than to current price. Qualitative evidence suggests that longer‐term trends in cocoa plantings were also influenced by changing opportunity costs and by…
Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
The Concept of Innovation and the History of Cocoa Farming in Western Nigeria
The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term—a new productive activity which, when adopted by a number of producers, leads to economic growth and structural change within a given institutional and social context. Cocoa growing spread in Western Nigeria through the efforts of migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions, such as …
No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa: A Review Essay
Recent assessments of the performance and prospects of African economies portray a deepening economic crisis centered on the problem of food supplies. During the last ten years, a rapidly rising number of Africans have had an increasingly difficult time getting enough to eat. By all accounts, domestic food supplies are falling further and further behind domestic needs; both governments and consumers face serious problems in procuring the kinds an…
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Fathers Work for Their Sons
The Concept of Innovation and the History of Cocoa Farming in Western Nigeria
The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term—a new productive activity which, when adopted by a number of producers, leads to economic growth and structural change within a given institutional and social context. Cocoa growing spread in Western Nigeria through the efforts of migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions, such as …
Supply response reconsidered: Cocoa in Western Nigeria, 1909–44
This essay uses time‐series data on cocoa plantings in Western Nigeria to re‐examine some popular conclusions about the price responsiveness of farmers in underdeveloped economies. Annual variations in the rate of planting were found to be more closely related to farmers’ income from cocoa sales than to current price. Qualitative evidence suggests that longer‐term trends in cocoa plantings were also influenced by changing opportunity costs and by…
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
The Concept of Innovation and the History of Cocoa Farming in Western Nigeria
The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term—a new productive activity which, when adopted by a number of producers, leads to economic growth and structural change within a given institutional and social context. Cocoa growing spread in Western Nigeria through the efforts of migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions, such as …
Supply response reconsidered: Cocoa in Western Nigeria, 1909–44
This essay uses time‐series data on cocoa plantings in Western Nigeria to re‐examine some popular conclusions about the price responsiveness of farmers in underdeveloped economies. Annual variations in the rate of planting were found to be more closely related to farmers’ income from cocoa sales than to current price. Qualitative evidence suggests that longer‐term trends in cocoa plantings were also influenced by changing opportunity costs and by…
Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Inequality and Underdevelopment in Africa: A Suggested Approach
The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa
Peasants in Africa
Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa: A Review Essay
Recent assessments of the performance and prospects of African economies portray a deepening economic crisis centered on the problem of food supplies. During the last ten years, a rapidly rising number of Africans have had an increasingly difficult time getting enough to eat. By all accounts, domestic food supplies are falling further and further behind domestic needs; both governments and consumers face serious problems in procuring the kinds an…
Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry: Accumulation, Differentiation and Underdevelopment in Western Nigeria
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Power in Ghana from Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Entrepreneurial Labour
Entrepreneurship – defined here as the process of managing, and often launching, an income-generating entity – is often depicted as a combination of personal attributes that enable certain individuals to perceive and act on economic opportunities more quickly and effectively than others do, and economic conditions in which economic opportunities are abundant and widely accessible. The present chapter seeks to shift the focus from innovation and i…
Entrepreneurial Labour
Sixteen Entrepreneurial Labour
General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Economics (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)