Chapter 1: Introduction: Connecting Elinor C. Ostrom and Viviana A. Zelizer, Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr -- Chapter 2: Why and How do Social Relations Matter for Economic Lives? Viviana A. Zelizer -- Chapter 3: What Relational Work Brings to the Study of the Political Economy,...

This paper argues that in order to understand West Indian economic underdevelopment, the saliency of the informal institutions that emerged during its colonial period and the effect these institutions have had on the emergence of a local entrepreneurial class can not be discounted. British...