Institutions and comparative economic development

List of tables -- List of figures -- Comparative analysis -- The five phases of economic development and institutional evolution in China, Japan and Korea / M. Aoki -- Social organizations, risk sharing institutions and economic development / A. Greif, M. Iyugun & D. Sasson -- Before and beyond divergence a new look at the economic history of China and Europe / J. Rosenthal & R. Wong -- Understanding the individualism-collectivism cleavage and its effects : lessons from cultural psychology / Y. Gorodnichenko & G. Roland -- Why development patterns differ : the Czech and Serbian cases compared / J. Svejnar & M. Uvalic -- Economic development -- Sharing the future : financial innovation and innovators in solving the political economic challenges of development / S. Jha -- The evolution of domestic trade flows when foreign trade is liberalized : evidence from the Chinese maritime customs services / W. Keller, B. Li & C. Shuie -- Physical, social and informational barriers to domestic migration / P. Choudhury & T. Khanna -- Developmental "paths" and "civilisations" in Africa and Asia : reflections on strategies for integrating cultural and material explanations of differential long-term economic performance / G. Austin -- Political institutions on development paths -- Political consequence of the Middle East's Islamic economic legacy / T. Kuran -- Separation of powers and the medieval roots of institutional divergence between -- Europe and the Islamic Middle East / E. Chaney -- Political institution and long run economic trajectory : some lessons from two millenia of Chinese civilization / D. Ma -- Part four: Challenges of food security under globalization -- Food security, commodity price volatility and the poor / J. von Braun & G. Tadesse -- Supply responses to food price changes in Asian countries / K. Imai, R. Gaiha, G. Thapa & A. Ali -- Structural transformation, small farmers and food security in Asia / C. Timmer -- Economic development and culture -- Making sense of institutional change in China : the cultural dimension of economic growth and modernization / C. Pillath