num_pages: 216
description: This book explores the political process by which property rights are defined and enforced in two traditional states in colonial Ghana. The case studies within the book ask how colonial institutions transformed indigenous political and economic life; and how colonization and decolonization affected prospects for future economic development and stability in Africa. The introductory chapter outlines a theory of the transformation of property rights system while the remaining empirical chapters refine this theory through a detailed analysis of the transformation of property rights within an African context.
language: English
title: The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast: An Empirical Study Applying Rational Choice Theory
titlecomplete: The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast: An Empirical Study Applying Rational Choice Theory (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
publisher: Cambridge University Press