Lexington Books
Pages: 258
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-2372-0 • Hardback • May 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-2373-7 • eBook • May 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
David Ellerman is formerly of the World Bank.
Chapter 1: Jane Jacobs: The Diva of Diversity
Chapter 2: Two Institutional Logics: Exit Vs. Voice and Commitment
Chapter 3: Parallel Experimentation
Chapter 4: Contestation and Devil’s Advocacy
Chapter 5: The Indirect Approach
Chapter 6: Knowledge and Autonomy-Compatible Development Assistance
Chapter 7: Investment Climate for Whom?: Rethinking Globalization
Chapter 8: Revisiting the Privatization Debates
Chapter 9: The Logical Fallacy in the Kaldor-Hick Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Chapter 10: A Summing Up
“David Ellerman is one of the most creative and original thinkers in today’s social sciences. His contract theory of power in corporations has the rare combination of being both revolutionary and feasible. This collection of essays are challenging orthodox thinking in the social sciences and particularly in economics. They are not only well written, but also wonderfully provocative.”
— Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg
“For more than sixty centuries humans languished under centralized hierarchies - monarchies, oligarchies, theocracies and feudal, fascist, communist or klepto-aristocracies - and all proved spectacularly awful at statecraft. Gradually, it dawned on us that nature abhors oversimplification, for some very good reasons. The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity explores many of the opportunities and constraints that have started, gradually, allowing human societies to reap benefits from complexity."
— David Brin, author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?