1. Introduction: structural analysis and the process of economic development / Jonas Ljungberg -- 2. How it all began : on structural periods / Olle Krantz and Carl-Axel Nilsson -- 3. Identifying and modelling cycles and long waves in economic time series / Fredrik N.G. Andersson -- 4....

From development to BRICS : the policy magical mystery tour / Richard Westra -- Brics up close -- Current paths of development in the southern cone : deindustrialization and a return to the agro-export model / Paul Cooney -- A BRIC despite itself : sustained growth versus neoliberalism in India...

This book proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and change, to explain economic transactions, and the nature and evolution of organisations and institutions