Calendrier du 30 octobre 2019
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 30/10/2019 de 17:00 à 19:00
Salle R1.10 Campus Jourdan, 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
Economic History Seminar
Du 30/10/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1.09 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
MC CANTS Anne (MIT)
Polygamy, the Commodification of Women, and the Erosion of Trust
écrit avec Dan Seligson (MIT)
Family systems shape social institutions, yet they are rarely considered in histories of economic development. In this paper, we show how market forces act through the dichotomy of polygamy and monogamy, mirroring them in a syndrome of social conventions such as age at marriage, bride price, sequestration, and discrimination and violence against women. We argue that this syndrome, which we call polygamos and which we quantify by two different methods, has demonstrable consequences for the development of economic and institutional well-being.