Traditional and small‐scale culture goods in international trade and employment

Bibliographic Data

ID20303003
AuthorsYhi‐Min Ho, Donald L Huddle
Year1976
Volume12
Issue2
Pages232-251
Publication date1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220387608421570
OpenAlexW2079814670
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

The literature in economics has relegated to an unimportant role the traditional and small‐scale industries in the process of development. Instead, manufacturing development is essentially seen as a transformation process from traditional to modern, from rural to urban and from agrarian to industrial. The main stress in development has been laid on industries with scale economies and positive externalities, and on the inducement of modern, capital‐intensive techniques. Small‐scale production has been taken to mean inefficient and backward; large‐scale production has become synonymous with the efficient and modern. Moreover, the consumer is characterized as preferring standardized products, while traditional goods are believed to be inferior and easily replaced by factory goods

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Business · Capital (architecture) · Capital good · Comparative advantage · Economic system · Economics · Economies of scale · Externality · Factory (object-oriented programming) · Goods and services · International trade · Market economy · Microeconomics · Production (economics) · Scale (ratio) · Global trade and economics