Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development: An Institutional Design Perspective

Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 12
Boxes......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
PART I......Page 20
1. Induced Institutional Innovation......Page 22
What Is Institutional Innovation?......Page 23
Demand for Institutional Innovation......Page 28
The Supply of Institutional Innovation......Page 35
Toward a More Complete Model of Induced Innovation......Page 41
Perspective......Page 48
PART II......Page 50
Cultural Endowments in Development Economics......Page 52
Why Anthropology?......Page 61
Deconstructing Development......Page 71
Constructing Culture......Page 78
Perspective......Page 82
3. The Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment......Page 87
Why Sociology?......Page 88
What Happened to Modernization Theory?......Page 90
Alternative Sociologies......Page 98
Rational Choice, Social Norms, and Development......Page 106
Perspective......Page 116
4. What Happened to Political Development?......Page 119
Political Development in Development Economics......Page 120
Political Science and Political Development......Page 125
The Political Basis of Economic Development......Page 131
The Economic Foundations of Po litical Development......Page 136
Political Power and Political Development......Page 138
Institutional Design......Page 144
Perspective......Page 150
5. Growth Economics and Development Economics......Page 154
Classical and Schumpeterian Growth......Page 155
Modern Growth Theory......Page 158
Dialogue with Data......Page 169
Growth Economics as Development Economics......Page 173
I,......Page 180
A More Comprehensive Growth Economics?......Page 182
Perspective......Page 184
A Postscript on Method......Page 186
PART III......Page 188
The Convergence of Traditions......Page 190
The Diffusion of Diffusion Research......Page 203
International Technology Transfer......Page 209
Resistance to Technology......Page 212
The Divergence of Traditions......Page 216
7. Social Capital and Institutional Renovation......Page 219
The Kombi-Naam Cultural Endowment......Page 221
Understanding the Kombi-Naam......Page 223
Renovating the Kombi-Naam as a Development Organization......Page 224
Groupements Naam and Technical Innovation......Page 226
The Continuity and Replicability of the......Page 228
The Continuity and Replicability of the Groupements Naam......Page 229
Conclusions......Page 232
Fundamentalist Religion and Economic Development......Page 234
Culture and Development......Page 245
Nationalism and Nation Building......Page 259
Perspective......Page 267
9. Why Foreign Economic Assistance?......Page 270
Donor Self-Interest......Page 271
Ethical Considerations......Page 274
Lessons from Experience......Page 279
A Foreign Economic Assistance Future?......Page 285
In Conclusion......Page 287
PART IV......Page 288
10. Postscript......Page 290
Appendix: Definitions of Culture......Page 292
Bibliography......Page 296
Author Index......Page 346
Subject Index......Page 350
Back Cover
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