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News & Events FEATURED 2020 Sociology Commencement: Monday, May 18, 9am-12pm in Zellerbach Hall Danya Lagos joins Berkeley Sociology! 2020 Sociology Commencement: Monday, May 18, 9am-12pm in Zellerbach Hall Berkeley Sociology Ranked #1 Faculty Spotlight Daniel Schneider Assistant Professor Social Demography, Inequality, Economic Instability Read More Irene Bloemraad Class of 1951 Professor Immigration, political sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, research methods, Canada Read More Ann Swidler Professor of the Graduate School Culture, religion, theory, institutionalization, African responses to HIV/AIDS; social ecologies of religion in Africa; chieftaincy, congregational religion and capacities for collective action Read More In Memoriam Albert Einstein (1941) EMERITUS PROFESSOR Prof. Einstein served graduate students as a model of prudence in remaining unfashionably true to the grand… READ MORE Faculty Publishing Conversations with Bourdieu By: Michael Burawoy and Karl Von Holdt Conversations with Bourdieu By: Michael Burawoy and Karl Von Holdt READ MORE Teach-In Seminar Trumpism and the Crisis of the American Liberal World Order Neil Fligstein April 26, 2017 Read More [homepage] colloquium Departmental Colloquium Series Yuen Yuen Ang, "Invisible Innovators: How Markets Emerge Under Adversity in the Global South" Monday, Feb 24, 2-3:30pm 402 Barrows Hall For decades, academics and policymakers have debated a chicken-and-egg problem: Which comes first in development—economic growth or good, strong institutions? My research, supported by the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, changes the question: In the first place, how do new markets sometimes emerge in the stark absence of first-world conditions? The simple yet surprising answer, as I discovered in my first book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), is: “use what you have.” Upon opening markets, the first step of development in China was neither “stimulate growth first” (such as through foreign aid or massive infrastructure investment) nor “establish first-world institutions first”—rather, it involved adapting indigenous resources and practices to kick-start entrepreneurship at the local levels, often in unorthodox ways. In this sequel, I investigate three other emerging markets: the spurt of tech start-ups in Cambodia despite the lack of first-world supporting conditions, the explosion of home mortgages in India despite dysfunctional courts, and the rise of Nollywood in Nigeria despite the lack of intellectual property rights protection. Although the context of each case is unique, all four cases demonstrate that the strategies and institutions for building new markets are functionally and qualitatively distinct from those that later enable fledgling markets to consolidate and expand. Full Colloquium List UC Berkeley Sociology Department 410 Barrows Hall Berkeley CA 94720-1980 Tel: (510) 642-4766 Fax: (510) 642-0659 © Copyright 2019 UC Regents. Footer Menus Graduate Program Undergraduate Program Login UC Berkeley Homepage...