Klappentext: "Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline. Economic development lends itself ideally...

New Institutional Economics and economic development -- Nations, conceptual framework and method -- Ethnicity and development -- Independence, ethnicity and development: case studies -- Forging national cohesion in constructed nations -- Summary and conclusion.