Getting growth going is hard and rare -- History as prologue -- Dictators build and sustain pro-growth coalitions -- Dictators incite domestic capitalists to invest -- Selective interventions in rice agriculture -- The state and industrial development -- Technological upgrading -- Democrats,...

How can we account for Indonesia's astonishing development performance between 1965 and 1997-rapid growth, massive reduction in the incidence of poverty, low income - inequality and substantial diversification of the economy - in the face of extremely dirigiste microeconomic policies, even by...