Contents: Foreword / Geoff Harcourt -- Introduction: The role of government / Nikolaos Karagiannis and John E. King -- Part I: Philosophical and theoretical aspects -- 1. Policy and state in complexity economics / Wolfram Elsner -- 2. State and public sector: key economic and...

"While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of many successful emerging market economies known as "growth miracles," another component of the growth model is a leapfrogging strategy - the use of policies to guide the industrial structural transformation ahead of a country's factor...

"This paper addresses three issues related to the relative rates of growth in the United States, the European Union, and China during the four decades between 2000 and 2040. The first concerns the source of the factors which make it likely that China will continue to grow at a high rate for...