Abram de Swaan & Marcel Van der Linden (Eds).Mutual Funds: then and here, now and there. Informal savings and insurance funds in the nineteenth century West and the present non-western world. 

In:Abram de Swaan & Marcel van der Linden (Eds): Mutualist Microfinance. Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Amsterdam: Aksant, 2005, p. 11-30.
With contributions by Eric Bähre, Aspha Bijnaar, Abdoulaye Kane, Hotze Lont, Peer Smets
Editor: Aksant, Amsterdam, 2006, 217 pp.

Contents:

• • • • Abram de Swaan: Mutual Funds: Then and here, now and there.
        Informal savings and insurance funds in the nineteenth-century West and the present non-western world.
      • Erik Bähre: Changing interdependencies and the State. How financial mutuals have changed in South Africa.
      • Aspha Bijnaar: As ye sow, so shall ye reap! Kasmoni in Suriname.
      • Abdoulaye Kane: Tontines and village cash boxes along the Thilonge-Dakar–Paris emigration route.
      • Hotze Lont: Social security in financial self-help organizations. An Indonesian example.
      • Peer Smets: Changing financial mutuals in urban India. Practice, functions, trust and development trajectories.
      • Marcel van der Linden: Varieties of Mutualism.

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