Contextual Development Economics

1. Introduction
Matthias P. Altmann

2. Poverty
Matthias P. Altmann

3. Transaction Costs
Matthias P. Altmann

4. Private Governance
Matthias P. Altmann

5. Informal Economic Activity
Matthias P. Altmann

6. The First Generation of Development Economists
Matthias P. Altmann

7. The Second Generation: Return to the Mainstream
Matthias P. Altmann

8. The Third Generation: Institutional Turn and the “New Development Economics”
Matthias P. Altmann

9. Conclusions from the Past and the Agenda for a New Generation of Development Economics
Matthias P. Altmann

10. Emerging New Directions in Development Economics
Matthias P. Altmann

11. German Historical Economics as Development Economics
Matthias P. Altmann

12. From Stage Theories to the Concept of Economic Styles
Matthias P. Altmann

13. The Relevance of the Historical School for the Study of Low-Income Countries
Matthias P. Altmann

14. Conclusions
Matthias P. Altmann

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Methodology and the History of Economic Thought, Development Economics, Political Science