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The Mercantile Potpourri Called Panama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas V. Greer*
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administotion, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Extract

Panama is a land of trade. For four and a half centuries, it has been a funnel for exchange between Europe and the west coast of South America and between the Atlantic and the Pacific. This article examines the place of retail trade in the Panamanian economy, with an emphasis as much cultural and social as it is economic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1972 

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Footnotes

*

The author gratefully acknowledges research grants from the Frost Foundation and the Louisiana State Foundation, which made possible a two-and-one-half-month residence in Panama.

References

Asanz, J. and M. Biesanz (1955) The People of Panama. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.Google Scholar
Ich, R. W. (1967) “La Parada, Lima's market.” American Universities Field Staff Reports Service West Coast South America Series 14, 1, 2, 3.Google Scholar