"The questions such as, 'why the focuses of national policies vary significantly across countries, although their sources of policies are to a great extent identical'; 'why national development experiences mostly cannot be transplanted successfully among countries'; 'why some ineffective...

1. Introduction -- 2. Basic definitions and theoretical conceptions of institutional economics -- 3. A theory of the emergence of institutions -- 4. A model of networks of institutions -- 5. Varieties of policy reactions to the recent financial and economic crises and national systems of...

1. Introduction : the poor craftsman and the wealthy inventor -- 2. Methods for an analysis of economic growth and network effects -- 3. A literature review : models of economic growth -- 4. Network economics -- 5. A complex model of growth, technological change and networks effects -- 6. Case...