West African Trade: A Study of Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly in a Changing Economy

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Tables xi
• List of Charts xiv
• Preface xv
• Preface to the 1963 Reissue xvii
• Introduction - Scope and Method of the Study 1
• Part 1 - General Aspects of The West African Economies and Of The Role of Trade 5
• Chapter 1 - Underlying Forces and Influences 7
• Chapter 2 - The Multiplicity of Traders and The Productivity of Trade 22
• Chapter 3 - The Growth of Restrictive Tendencies 35
• Part 2 - The Import Trade 45
• Chapter 4 - Outline of the Composition of Imports And of Their Method of Distribution 47
• Chapter 5 - Shares of Racial Groups and Of Firms in the Import Trade 65
• Chapter 6 - Some Topics in the Recent History Of the Import Trade 77
• Part 3 - Monopolistic and Competitive Influences in West African External Trade 87
• Chapter 7 - Criteria, Characteristics And Bases of Monopoly 89
• Chapter 8 - The Advantages of Capital and Size 104
• Chapter 9 - Concentration, Marketing Arrangements And Competition (i) 120
• Chapter 10 - Concentration, Marketing Arrangements And Competition (ii) 130
• Chapter 11 - Official Policies and Attitudes And Economic Concentration 145
• Chapter 12 - Effects of the Immigration Policy On Monopoly and Competition 156
• Chapter 13 - Further Influences of Official Policy On the Trading Situation 172
• Chapter 14 - The Supply of Ancillary Services 180
• Part 4 - The Export Trade 193
• Chapter 15 - Outline of the Growth, Composition And Recent History of the Export Trade 195
• Chapter 16 - The Buying Organizations and Methods Of the Merchants and of Other Inter­ Mediaries in the Export Trade 202
• Chapter 17 - The Shares of Firms in the Trade In Export Produce 217
• Chapter 18 - Aspects of Competition In Produce Buying 228
• Chapter 19 - Wartime Arrangements in The West African Export Trade And Their Results 246
• Part 5 - The Statutory Marketing Boards And Their Policies 261
• Chapter 20 - The Genesis of the Marketing Boards 263
• Chapter 21 - The Scope and Powers of The Marketing Boards 276
• Chapter 22 - The Price Policies of The Marketing Boards (i) 283
• Chapter 23 - The Price Policies of the Marketing Boards (ii) 300
• Chapter 24 - The Arguments in Support of the Price Policies of the Marketing Boards 319
• Part 6 - The Economics of Marketing Reform 345
• Chapter 25 The Economics of Marketing Reform: Measures and Proposals (1) 347
• Chapter 26 - The Economics of Marketing Reform: Measures and Proposals (ii) 365
• Part 7 - Internal Trade 377
• Chapter 27 - Principal Features of Internal Trade 379
• Appendices 393
• Appendix 2 - The Terms of Trade of Producers Of Export Crops 410
• Index 445

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