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Contents

• Introduction
  Laura Grube
• A Place for Entrepreneurship or Entrepreneurship for a Place?
  David Audretsch
• A Place for Entrepreneurship: Start-up Visas?
  Siri Terjesen
• Entrepreneurship Policy and the Wealth of Nations
  Daniel Bennett
• Eco-Entrepreneurship and (Unintended?) Rent-Seeking
  Abhey Singh Guram and Jasmin Bowers
• A Strategy Map to Placemaking: A Case Study of Janesville, Wisconsin
  Oakleigh Ryan
• An Audretschian View of a Local Phenomenon: The Knowledge Spillover from Beloit Corporation
  Kathryn Arnold and Nicholas Lanpheer
• People, Places, and Social Change
  Stefanie Haeffele and Laura Grube
• Building the Green Paradise: Sustainability in Action in Northern Spain
  Amy Tibbitts and Pablo Toral

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Contents

• Introduction
  Laura Grube

Part I: Culture and Institutions

• The Benefits and Costs of Diversity: Lessons from Economic History
  Joel Mokyr
• How Did the World Become Rich?
  Jared Rubin
• Upper Tail Human Capital Formation and its Economic Effects
  Ralf R. Meisenzahl
• Using the Mokyrian Cultural Lens to Understand Gender Norms and Their Economic Implications
  Rosemarie Fike

Part II: Beloit, Wisconsin

• Beloit, WI 1830-1930 : Beloit’s Migrant and Immigrant Populations
  Beatrice McKenzie
• Celebrating Beloit’s Industrial Past and Forging a Path Forward
  Rob Gerbitz
• Can We Have a College Here?
  Fred Burwell
• An Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation: a Historical Case Study on Beloit, Wisconsin
  Louise Claussen

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Contents

• Introduction
  Diep Phan
• The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
  John A. List
• Toward an Understanding of John List: Field Experiments from Children to Charities
  Anya Samek
• Understanding the interaction of sleep, social media, and mental health for productivity and performance: the role of field experiments
  Sam Lindquist and Sally Sadoff
• Does Self-Selection Diminish the Influence of Experimental Research
  Alec Brandon
• Racialized Courts: How racial attitudes shape perceptions of the American judicial system
  Phil Chen
• Maybe We Can—But Should We?
  Phil Shields
• Does Negative Campaigning Cause Political Polarization?
  Edward Verzosa
• Understand Your Community’s Potential
  Quint Studer

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Contents

• Introduction
  Diep Phan
• Immigration and the Wealth and Well-Being of U.S. and Them
  Giovanni Peri
• Interconnected Worlds in Motion: the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations and the Mechanisms Driving Migration
  Fernando Riosmena
• Immigration Research and Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
  Katharine Donato
• Can Immigrants Help the U.S. Care for an Aging Population?
  Delia Furtado
• Fears and Tears: Should More People Be Moving Within and From Developing Countries, and What Stops This Movement?
  David McKenzie
• Gender and the Judicial Interpretation of Citizenship Law in Southern Africa
  Rachel Ellett
• A Brief Note: Interpretation at the Asylum Office
  Hillary Mellinger

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Contents

Part I: Introduction

• Introduction
  Diep Phan

Part II: Promoting Skills

• Promoting Skills
  James J. Heckman

Part III: Essays on Human Capital – Perspectives from the United States

• Investing in Human Capital across the Life Cycle to Increase Equity and Improve Outcomes
  Carolyn J. Heinrich
• The 200 Billion Dollar Bill Lying on the Sidewalk
  Andrew Davis
• Credit Constraints throughout Childhood and Educational Attainment
  Peter Nencka
• To Study or To Work: Labor Market Effects on High School Graduation Rate
  Oli Brimacombe and Jiho Wu
• Finding the Profit in Peekaboo: Moving Towards Relational Health as a Goal
  Dipesh Navsaria

Part IV: Essays on Human Capital – International Perspectives

• Patterns of Human Capital Formation among Indonesian Transmigrants
  Shatanjaya Dasgupta and Edward Kosack
• Educational Inequality in Andhra Pradesh, India: an Analysis of Gender and Caste Differences in Students’ Performance in English and Mathematics
  Shivangi Ambardar and Xinrui Bai
• Suzhi, Relevance, and the New Curriculum: A Case Study of One Rural
  Middle School in Northwest China
  Jingjing Lou

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Contents

• Introduction
  Diep Phan

Part I: Globalization Around the World

• Globalization and the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations
  Dani Rodrik
• Guarding (Against) Financial Globalization: International Financial Safety Nets and Sovereign Debt Default
  Ted Liu
• Globalization, Policy Convergence, and Liberal Democracy
  Sharun Mukand

Part II: Globalization in the Developing World

• Global Pan-Ethnics and Other Exotic Imaginaries in Bali, Indonesia
  Jennifer Esperanza
• The Emperor’s Law Stops at the Village Gate: The Evolution of Vietnam’s Land Law Reform
  Rachel Ellett and Diep Phan
• Washington Blues, Pink Tides, and Brown Development. The Political Economies of Neo-Extractivism in the Andes
  Pablo Toral
• The Economic Consequences of Globalization in Africa
  Darlington Sabasi and Johnson Gwatipedza
• Manufacturing in Ethiopia and Tanzania: Challenges and Opportunities
  Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan

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Contents

• Introduction
  Warren Bruce Palmer
• “The Global Energy Challenge: Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels”
  Michael Greenstone
• “Innovation on Three Fronts in Pursuit of Energy and Climate Progress”
  Andrew Revkin
• “Scaling Low-Carbon Energy for the Developing and Developed World”
  Eric D. Isaacs
• “The Promise of Paris and Lessons from Paradise: Hawaii’s Contributions to U.S. Pledges under the Paris Agreement”
  Anukriti Hittle
• “Environmental Economics, Developing Nations and Michael Greenstone”
  Rema Hanna
• “Climate and Development: Where Mitigation and Adaptation Collide”
  B. Kelsey Jack
• “Revisiting Shadow Prices and Environmental Efficiency of SO ₂ and NO _x Emissions by Coal-Burning Power Plants”
  Jermaine Moulton

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Contents

• Introduction
  Warren Palmer
• “State Capitalism in China”
  Yasheng Huang
• “Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China”
  Loren Brandt
• “Entrepreneurship with Chinese Characteristics: China, Taiwan and the Tech Industry”
  Carrier Liu Currier
• “Yasheng Huang and the Turning Points in China’s Transition”
  Barry Naughton
• “The Values of Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China”
  S.E. Kile
• “Divine Entrepreneurs: Buying and Selling (the Same Thing, Over and Over) on China’s Southern Sacred Mountain”
  Robert Andre LaFleur
• “An Economy of Words: Observations on Fictional Narrative and Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China”
  Daniel M. Youd

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Contents

• Introduction
  Warren Bruce Palmer
• “What Can an Economist Possibly Have to Say About Climate Change?”
  Robert N. Stavins
• “Market and the Environment: Progress and Future Challenges”
  Sheila M. Olmstead
• “Linking Sound Economics with Global Polices”
  Gernot Wagner
• “Carbon Pricing: From Theory to Reality”
  Yoram Bauman
• “Regulation, Innovation and Experimentation: The Case of Residential Rooftop Solar”
  Lynne Kiesling and Mark Silberg
• “Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Entrepreneurship”
  Mark Hanson
• “Using Tax Financing Strategies to Help Fund a Zero Net Energy Landmark Building and “Green” Endowment for Beloit College”
  John Clancy
• “Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Entrepreneurship”
  John Nelson
• “Addressing Climate Change Should Boost the Economy”
  John Norquist

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Contents

• Introduction
  Joshua C. Hall
• “Institutions, Economic Freedom, and the Wealth of Nations”
  James D. Gwartney
• “Freedom as Development: Reflections on James Gwartney’s Contributions to Measuring Institutions”
  Robert A. Lawson
• “The Soft Side of Economic Freedom”
  Niclas Berggren
• “Freedom and Economic Education: Jim Gwartney at the Crossroads”
  J.R. Clark
• “Culture and Freedom”
  Claudia R. Williamson and Rachel L. Coyne
• “The Geography of Economic Freedom”
  Matthew Brown
• “Economic Freedom Research: Some Comments and Suggestions”
  Jamie Bologna and Joshua Hall

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Contents

• Introduction
  Joshua C. Hall
• “Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present”
  Timur Kuran
• “Institutional Bottlenecks: What Can be Done?”
  Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall
• “Preference Falsification, Revolutionary Coordination, and The Tahrir Square Model”
  David Siddhartha Patel
• “Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism”
  Murat Iyigun
• “Timur Kuran’s Framework and Economic Underdevelopment
  in the Islamic World”
  Jared Rubin
• “Religion and Entrepreneurial Activity in the U.S.”
  Travis Wiseman and Andrew Young
• “Brazil’s Long Divergence”
  Anna B. Faria and J. Robert Subrick

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Contents

• Introduction
  Emily Chamlee-Wright
• “The Challenges of Achieving Conservation and Development”
  Elinor Ostrom
• “The Commons of Knowledge: A Historical Perspective”
  Joel Mokyr
• “Ostrom and Liberal Education: The College Classroom as Knowledge Commons”
  Robert F. Garnett Jr.
• “Yet Another Path: Another Path: Expanding De Soto’s Framework using Ostrom’s Insights”
  Adrian Perez
• “Polycentrism, Self-Governance, and the Case of Married Women’s Rights Reform”
  Jayme S. Lemke
• “Regulation’s Effect on Experimentation in Retail Electricity Markets”
  Lynne Kiesling
• “Polycentrism and Prison Gangs”
  David B. Skarbek and Andrew Marcum
• “Property taxes and Polycentricity”
  Justin M. Ross and Daniel Hummel

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Contents

• Introduction
  Emily Chamlee-Wright
• “The Economics of Greed or the Economics of Purpose”
  Israel M. Kirzner
• “The Genius of Mises and the Brilliance of Kirzner”
  Peter Boettke / Frederic Sautet
• “A Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World”
  Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
• “Discovering the Gains from Trade: Alertness and the Extent of the Market”
  Adam Martin
• “The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Alertness and the Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs”
  Virgil Henry Storr / Arielle John
• “Explaining the Rise of Institutions: Toward a Kirznerian Theory of Repeated Games”
  Peter Nencka
• “Entrepreneurs are not Experts”
  Roger Koppl
• “Are Current Economic Activities Undermining Future Prosperity?”
  Randall Holcombe
• “Entrepreneurial Volatility: A Cross Country Study”
  José Ernesto Amorós / Oscar Cristi / Maria Minniti

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Contents

• Introduction
  Emily Chamlee-Wright
• “Understanding the Shadow Economies of the Developing and Developed Worlds”
  Hernando de Soto
• “The Biggest Idea in Development That No One Really Tried”
  Michael Clemens
• “The Microeconomics of Public Choice in Developing Economies: A Case Study of One Mexican Village”
  Tyler Cowen
• “Economic Freedom and the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations”
  Robert A. Lawson
• “Property Rights and the Return to Capital”
  Benjamin J. VanMetre / Joshua C. Hall
• “The Two Sides of de Soto: Property Rights, Land Titling, and Development”
  Claudia R. Williamson
• “Property Takings in Developed versus Developing Countries: Economics, Politics, and the Limits of the Holdout Problem”
  Edward J. Lopez
• “Beyond Microcredit: Delivering Financial Services to the Poor through Agent Banking”
  Robert Peck Christen
• “The 2008 Financial Crisis: Causes, Response, and Consequences”
  Lyle E. Gramley

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Contents

• Introduction
  Emily Chamlee-Wright
• “Violence and Social Orders”
  Douglass North
• “The Failure to Transplant Democracy, Markets, and the Rule of Law into the Developing World”
  Barry R. Weingast
• “Institutional Transition and the Problem of Credible Commitment”
  Peter Boettke
• “Why Do Elites Permit Reform?”
  John V.C. Nye
• “The Importance of Expectations in Economic Development”
  Christopher J. Coyne
• “Designing Incentive-Compatible Policies to Promote Human Capital Development”
  Carolyn J. Heinrich
• “North’s Underdeveloped Ideological Entrepreneur”
  Virgil Henry Storr