Table of Contents:
  • Economic development, interdependence, and incentives
  • Games
  • Development traps and coordination games
  • Rural poverty, development and the environment
  • Risk, solidarity networks, and reciprocity
  • Understanding agrarian institutions
  • Savings, credit, and microfinance
  • Social learning and technology adoption
  • Property rights, governance, and corruption
  • Conflict, violence, and development
  • Social capital
  • The political economy of trade and development
  • Appendix
  • Exercises for interested readers
  • References
  • Index.