Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development: Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas

Contents\nList of Maps\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nList of Acronyms\nIntroduction. An ‘Informal’ Economic History\nPart I. Economic Informality: An Idea and Its Relevance to Melanesia\nChapter 1. Keith Hart and the Idea of Informality\nChapter 2. Precursors of the Informal Economy\nChapter 3. Melanesia in the Trade of the Malay Archipelago\nChapter 4. Melanesian Singularity: Insights from Neoclassical Economics\nChapter 5. Traditional Trade and Exchange in Papua New Guinea\nChapter 6. National Capitalism in the Th ree New Guineas\nPart II. From Early Colonization to the Pacific War\nChapter 7. German and Australian New Guinea before the Pacific War\nChapter 8. Chinese in New Guinea before the Pacific War\nChapter 9. Hubert Murray and the Contending Moralities\nChapter 10. The Idea of a Town in Anglo-Papua\nChapter 11. Papuans in Town before the Pacific War\nChapter 12. Hidden Valleys: A New White Highlands?\nPart III. Informality in the Era of Economic Development\nChapter 13. Economic Development: Ideology and Apologetics\nChapter 14. Obsolescence and the Preconditions for Urbanism\nChapter 15. Remaking Port Moresby: The Formal Town\nChapter 16. An Informal Town: Villages and Settlements\nChapter 17. Reconstruction in Rabaul and the Seeds of Post-war Growth\nChapter 18. Informal Economy on the Gazelle at the End of the Colonial Era\nChapter 19. Chinese Enterprise in Rabaul: Apotheosis and Decline\nChapter 20. Bureaucracy and Market Economy on the Frontier\nChapter 21. Gorokans and Coffee in the ‘Lucky Place’\nChapter 22. Formality and Informality in the Coffee Economy\nChapter 23. The Triumph of Capitalism?\nPart IV. Birth Pangs: All These Are the Beginning of Sorrows\nChapter 24. The Preparatory Idea\nChapter 25. Hart, Faber and the Informal Economy in Port Moresby\nChapter 26. An Uneasy Trio of Formality, Informality and Hybridity\nChapter 27. Dilemmas and Consequences of Urban Growth\nConclusion\nReferences\nIndex