For economic development, the central importance of commercial law, private enterprise and public infrastructure are undeniable. Yet trying to transplant such in situations when they are foreign can add political turmoil to economic stagnation. Drawing on The Elgar Companion to Development...

This essay discusses Hans Singer's intellectual formation and the influences on his early writings and on his post-1947 development economics. It asks what impact the unusual experience of studying with both Schumpeter and Keynes had upon his subsequent economic thinking and practice. It argues...