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Rethinking the informal economy: Implications for regional analysis
| Author: |
Halperin, Rhoda H. |
| Date: |
1996 |
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Research in Economic Anthropology. JAI press Inc. |
| Abstract: |
The purpose of this paper is to specify some of the linkages, relationships, and common denominators shared by the rural and urban informal economies in a Midwestern Appalachian region. Analyzing rural and urban informal economies together is unusual in economic anthropology. Almost none of the studies of informal economy to date deal with rural areas, and almost all of the studies of urban informal economies are highly localized and do not extend the unit of analysis to include areas outside of cities. If we take the region as the unit of analysis, we discover new dimensions of informal economic processes that have not been considered previously. |
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