Subject(s): Institutional economics -- Economic policy. -- Modern Bureaucracy -- fedaralism -- Institutional change and economic development -- Understanding the relationship between institutions and economic development, extending the institutional turn- property, politics and development trajectories, institutionalism ancient, old and new- historical perspective on institutions and uneven development -- Evolution of particular institutions : Modern bureaucracy, central banks as agents of economic development, corporate governance, innovative enterprise and economic development, political economy of taxation and tax reform in developing countries, rule of law, legal traditions and economic growth in east Asia -- Country experiences : State formation and construction of institutions for the industrial nation, role of federalism in developing US, institutions and economic growth in Switzerland, rise and halt of economic development in Brazil, rethinking import-substituting industrialization- development strategies and institutions in Taiwan and China, developmental nationalism and economic performance in Africa