Dissertation Research: History, Institution, and the Political Economy of Night Market in Taiwan

论文研究：台湾夜市的历史、制度与政治经济

• 批准号: 9021004
• 负责人: G.William Skinner
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-01 至 1993-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9021004&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; History; Institution; Political

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from the University of California-Davis. The student will study the night markets in Taiwan, a local institution of street markets providing inexpensive prepared foods and consumer items to urban residents. The project will study the history of the markets and the role of government regulations on their behavior, as well as the meaning of the markets in the lives of urban residents. It is a study in the "informal economy" of a dynamic and productive society. Methods include surveys of the markets, intensive interviews with marketers on their life histories, examination of historical documents, and survey interviews with marketers and customers. This project is important because the informal sector of developing economies is not well understood, and this case study of a dynamic informal market institution in a growing economy will help build theory on how to achieve and sustain economic development while providing a high level of consumer service to urban residents.

该项目支持加州大学戴维斯分校文化人类学家的论文研究。 学生将研究台湾的夜市，这是当地的街头市场机构，为城市居民提供廉价的预制食品和消费品。 该项目将研究市场的历史、政府监管对其行为的作用，以及市场在城市居民生活中的意义。 这是对充满活力和生产力的社会的“非正规经济”的研究。 方法包括市场调查、对营销人员的生活史进行深入访谈、查阅历史文献以及对营销人员和顾客进行调查访谈。 该项目很重要，因为人们对发展中经济体的非正规部门还没有很好的了解，而这个对增长经济体中充满活力的非正规市场制度的案例研究将有助于建立关于如何在提供高水平消费者服务的同时实现和维持经济发展的理论给城市居民。