Key Features:Offers a different perspective with the conceptualization of endogenous development as a territorial and comprehensive view of developmentGives an insightful argument that local development policy acts upon the accumulation process through the forces of development.

We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we focus on the role resource pressures have played in the historic development of Hawaii's institutions. We discuss the Hawaiian story in the context of the natural co-evolution of...