The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008. Many countries, many of them in Asia, have secured good economic growth after the crisis by adopting a developmental state model, with...

Market-based governance and the architecture of accountability / John D. Donahue -- Government contracting for health care / Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser -- Service contracting with nonprofit and for-profit providers : on preserving a mixed organizational ecology / Peter Frumkin --...