Contents: Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1. How we got here -- 2. New institutional economics -- Part II Legal systems and development -- 3. Legal origin theory and the transplant effect -- 4. A new institutional economics approach to law and development -- Part III Finance and development -- 5. Financial markets -- 6. Estimating the determinants of growth: an empirical exploration of an NIE framework -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Index.