The Making of a Periphery makes three important claims. First, commodity export production does not necessarily result in peripheralization, which is defined as economic stagnation, depressed wages and impoverishment. Second, peripheralization is instead influenced by the specific mode of production of export commodities. Third, the mode of production is crucially determined by demographic growth and patron-client relationships. This essay investigates these claims using a variety of economic and demographic data on Southeast Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is shown that specialization in primary commodity exports does lower long-term economic growth rates and that indigenous institutions regarding family systems and property rights play an important role in the patterns of economic development.

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东南亚长期经济发展中的商品生产与本土制度

外围的制作提出三个重要主张。首先，商品出口生产并不一定会导致外围化，即经济停滞、工资下降和贫困化。其次，外围化反而受到出口商品特定生产方式的影响。第三，生产方式主要取决于人口增长和顾客与客户的关系。本文使用 19 世纪和 20 世纪东南亚的各种经济和人口数据来调查这些主张。结果表明，初级商品出口的专业化确实降低了长期经济增长率，而且有关家庭制度和财产权的本土制度在经济发展模式中发挥着重要作用。