This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by David Rockefeller -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. An Evolving Economy -- 1. The Moral Economy -- 2. Systems of Accountability -- 3. A Community-Oriented Economy -- Part II. A Developing Economy -- 4. A Theory of Civil Privatization --...