"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a...

Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people's welfare. The role of specific...

As the authors see it, social forestry in India emerged to serve commercial interests of the economic and social elites of the Indian class and caste hierarchy. They discuss the issue of land ownership and tenure in social forestry, the role of the Forest Department in social forestry, people's...