This book is a timely reminder of the more fundamental determinants of capital accumulation and innovation. It provides a mixture of conceptual, empirical, historical and methodological approaches to the relationship between institutions, institutional change and economic development.

This book is a timely reminder of the more fundamental determinants of capital accumulation and innovation. It provides a mixture of conceptual, empirical, historical and methodological approaches to the relationship between institutions, institutional change and economic development.

Introduction: Economic Growth and Development: An Institutional Perspective; W.R.Garside Institutions and Economic Development: Economic History and Human Arrangement; B.Supple A 'Tiresome Complexity'? Rent-seeking, Devolution and Economic Performance in Northern Ireland, 1945-72; G.Brownlow Institutional Capacity and Social Capability: Japan's 'Deviant' Capitalism in the High Growth Period and Beyond; W.R.Garside The Developmental Logic of Financial Liberalization in Taiwan; E.Thurbon The Institutional Legacy and the Development of an Australian National Innovation System; S.Ville The Deep Determinants of Long-run Growth and Economic Development; P.D.Owen & C.R.Weatherston The Deep Determinants of Health and Education; Institutions versus Geography; M.Jones, S.Knowles & P.D.Owen Diseases Dominate; A.Batten & A.Martina When Can the Rabble Redistribute? Democratization and Income Distribution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries; P.Nel Globalization as the Institutionalization of Neoliberalism: Commodification, Financialization, and the Anchorless Economy; R.H.Wade The Democratic Peace and Substitutability during International Crises: Institutionalized Democracy and Foreign Policy Choices; K.DeRouen Jr & S.Goldfinch The Professions as Systems that Support Transactions Involving Knowledge: Their Contribution to Economic Development and their Response to the Growth of Global Markets; G.Boyce Communicative Transaction Benefits; S.Kesting