Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93546 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2012-14
Publisher: 
University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE), Quezon City
Abstract: 
Documentary evidence of the emergence and the eventual complete dominance of the Chinese mercantile traders (Sangleys) during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines is first presented. We identify the critical traits in the Sangley mercantile genome and the new contractual and organizational technologies which led to the wipeout of non-Sangley merchants from the market. A Malthusian replicator dynamics is proposed to explain the wipeout process. We explain the persistence of the mercantile dominance of Sangleys via the forces serving to curve abuse of market power and non-assimilation of winning Sangley traits by non-Chinese following the Akerlof-Kranton identity economics.
Subjects: 
Market dominance
Sangley traits
Emergence
Ethnicity
JEL: 
N0
L10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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