An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic transformations and political changes
该书从长期视角审视撒哈拉以南非洲的经济史，分析奴隶贸易、非殖民化等内外因素，并引入“守门国家”和“权力舞台”概念，解释该地区发展困境。
Achieving and maintaining sustained economic development is a challenging and painstakingly complicated endeavour. It presupposes that states and societies have or undergo social and political changes which do not constrain development efforts. In what is an equally demanding effort, Hillbom and Green examine the above for sub-Saharan Africa. Their book seeks to provide a long-term perspective of the region’s economic history, presenting both endogenous and exogenous factors that have characterized major phenomena such as the slave trade and decolonization. The book is made up of nine chapters that cover the period 1000–ca. 2019. Two concepts of ‘the gate-keeping state’ and ‘power arenas’ predominate and complement more familiar concepts of ‘institutions’ and ‘factor endowment’. For the first period, between 1000 and 1850, the authors adroitly utilize factor endowments to make the case for how labour scarcity and abundant land constrained the creation of centralized states and production systems. Hillbom and Green...