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Preface – Notes on the Contributors – PART 1: INTRODUCTION; D.H.Perkins & B.H.Koo – PART 2: THEORETICAL ISSUES ON SOCIAL CAPABILITY – Returns to Scale, Information, and Economic Growth; K.J.Arrow – The Elements of Social Capability; M.Abramovitz – Social Absorption Capability and Innovation; J.E.Stiglitz – Social Absorption Capability, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development; C.J.Dahlman & R.Nelson – Social Absorption Capability and Economic Development; L.Hurwicz – Long-run Growth and Public Policy; V.Tanzi – PART 3: SOCIAL CAPABILITY: COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE – Decentralized Information Processing and Hierarchical Monitoring: The Case of Japan; M.Aoki – Sociocultural Factors in the Industrialization of Korea; B.H.Koo – The Puzzles of Fairly Fast Growth and Rapid Collapse Under Socialism; S.Gomulka – The Transition from Central Planning: East Asia’s Experience; D.H.Perkins – Latin American Development: From the ‘Black Box’ to the ‘Empty Box’; F.Fajnzylber – Absorptive Capacity and Industrial Growth: A Conceptual Framework and Korea’s Experience; L.Kim – Why Growth Rates Differ: The Political Economy of Social Capability in 21 Developing Countries; D.Lal – Social Capability and Long-term Economic Growth; L.B.Krause – Index
