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Adam Smith. Wikimedia Commons
1. Development Clusters
Notes and further reading for this chapter.
Joseph Schumpeter. Volkswirtschaftliches Institut
2. Fiscal Capacity
William Blackstone. Wikimedia Commons
3. Legal Capacity
Niccolo Machiavelli. Wikimedia Commons
4. Political Violence
Leo Tolstoy. Credit: F. W. Taylor, Public domain
5. State Spaces
Paul Kagame. Credit: Veni Markovski, CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Development Assistance
James Madison. NPG, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
7. Political Reform
Chapters
Summaries of all the chapters in the book.