For many developing countries, economic growth is an elusive quest. Both economists and policymakers have long known that issues such as education, investment and infrastructure are necessary ingredients for development and yet only a very small number of countries seem to be able to come up...

Malaysia’s admirable economic growth is often attributed to liberal, open economic policies. Aggregate measures of openness, however, often veil the way coalitional politics drove illiberal government intervention in the economy to correct ethnically based economic inequality, create national...

1. Introduction : relationships matter -- 2. Relationships and social capital -- 3. Different kinds of social capital -- 4. Do social capital motives matter (much)? -- 5. An introduction to the social capital paradigm -- 6. The social capital paradigm : the role of socio-emotional goods -- 7....

Economies of the Midwest United States led the world in entrepreneurialism, wealth creation, and economic transformation in the 20th century. But the institutions created to maintain that wealth are now constraining the region's capacity to make the changes necessary to adapt to the new global...