When bad economics is good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root -- Order, disorder, and economic change: Latin America versus North America / Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast -- Political institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce...

Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Post-Globalization: Complexity in the Governance of a Networked Global Society -- 2 Opening the Doors of Complexity -- 3 Economic Incentives and the Replication of Social Complexity -- 4 Coevolution versus Liberal Internationalism -- 5 Promises and...

This paper points out that virtually all growth in the global labor force in the coming decades will occur in countries that rank poorly in governance criteria. These countries are likely to face extremely large youth cohorts, but lack the ability to provide the education and attract the...