TY  - CHAP
AB  - Economic anthropology of bazaar-type markets for material goods has developed a model of markets under uncertain conditions through microscopic analyses of seller–buyer relationships. The model implies that serious lack of information makes the individuals highly risk-averse and leads to long-term, balanced clientelization. Presented in this chapter is another model of uncertain market conditions. In a bazaar-type market of interpersonal service the individuals are likely to be both chance-seekers as well as risk-averters. Such an attitude derives from a combination of unique service characteristics and uncertain market conditions. Transactions of commodified sexual services (termed here “interpersonally embedded services”) among chance-seekers in bangkok go-go bars often result in disequilibration, rather than equilibration, of the seller–buyer relationship.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-0-76231-375-4, 978-1-84950-463-8/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1016/S0190-1281(06)25006-6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(06)25006-6
AU  - Ichinosawa Jumpei
ED  - Donald C. Wood
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Economic Anthropology of Bangkok Go-Go Bars: Risk and Opportunity in a Bazaar-type Market for Interpersonally Embedded Services
T2  - Choice in Economic Contexts
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 125
EP  - 150
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -