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• Introduction: The Broader View ; 1. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others Poor ; 2. Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia ; 3. Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom ; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development ; 5. Overstrong against Thyself: War, the State, and Growth in Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution ; 6. The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis ; 7. Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Really that Bad? ; 8. Communities and Development: Autarkic Social Groups and the Economy ; 9. Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms ; 10. The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development

Accessible to a wide range of readers.

• Introduction: The Broader View ; 1. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others Poor ; 2. Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia ; 3. Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom ; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development ; 5. Overstrong against Thyself: War, the State, and Growth in Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution ; 6. The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis ; 7. Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Really that Bad? ; 8. Communities and Development: Autarkic Social Groups and the Economy ; 9. Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms ; 10. The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development

Accessible to a wide range of readers.

• Introduction: The Broader View ; 1. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others Poor ; 2. Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia ; 3. Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom ; 4. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development ; 5. Overstrong against Thyself: War, the State, and Growth in Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution ; 6. The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis ; 7. Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Really that Bad? ; 8. Communities and Development: Autarkic Social Groups and the Economy ; 9. Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms ; 10. The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development