Economic Complexity and Human Development

242 Pages·2014·2.1 MB·English

Economic Complexity and
Human Development
This book combines the human development approach with innovation economics
to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.
While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and
capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes
to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. Within
this process of structural transformation, social networks are crucial for accessing
information and social support, but networks can also be a root cause of exclusion
and inequality reproduction. This implies the need to encourage innovation and
economic diversification beyond production expansion, focusing on the promo-
tion of human agency and social inclusion.
This book provides such a modern perspective on development economics,
emphasizing the role of social networks, economic diversity and entrepreneur-
ship for social welfare. The author discusses how innovation, social networks,
economic dynamics and human development are interlinked, and provides several
practical examples of social and micro-entrepreneurship in contexts as diverse as
Peruvian rural villages and Brazil’s urban areas.
The interdisciplinary perspective put forward in this book illustrates theoreti-
cal and methodological methods of exploring the complexity of development in
a practical and relevant way. It also provides useful information about structural
factors which need to be considered by practitioners when designing pro-poor
growth policies. Furthermore, the coverage of the core concepts of innovation,
networks and development economics, enriched with multiple examples, makes
it a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students of modern development
economics.
Dominik Hartmann is Research Fellow at the University of Hohenheim,
Germany and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, USA. His work
examines the complex relationships between innovation, structural economic
change and human development.
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