This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age,...

Why now! -- The power of flourishing -- The brain's hidden secrets -- Two non-facts that run our modern world -- Freeing the right-brain -- Finding the real me -- Creating homo curitans -- Navigating the mazes of complexity -- Building institutions for flourishing -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1...