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Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the suggestions and comments of numerous friends and colleagues. It has emerged over an extended period, and I beg for pardon should I have omitted any of them from my list: Jocelyn Alexander, Mary Bagg, Sing Chew, Hugh Dyer, Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, Rosalba Fratini, Xiaolan Fu, Andreas Goldthau , Chris Hannington, Barbara Harriss-White, Eva Herschinger, Dan Hicks, David Von Hippel, Robert Hirsch, Damon Honnery, Oliver Inderwildi , Jessica Jewell, Peter Katzenstein, Sir David King, Martin Kraus, Kristian Krieger, Maite Lopez Suero, John Mathews, Rana Mitter, Paul Murray, Ruth Murray, Avner Offer, Richard O’Rourke, Gianfranco Poggi, Jochen Prantl, Stephen Quilley, Jerry Ravetz, Marcy Ross, Jörg Schindler, Hannes Stephan, Mary Stokes White, David Talbot, Marisa Wilson, Adrian Wood, Chris Vernon, and Martin Weitzman. Special thanks are due to Clay Morgan and his colleagues at the MIT Press for their kind support, as well as the four peer reviewers for their helpful comments. Thanks are also due to the University of Oxford for granting me a sabbatical year to write this book. Elsevier, as well as Taylor and Francis, have kindly granted permission to use material from three previous articles.1 I would like to thank my parents for always being there, and my father-in-law for showing an interest in my work. But my deepest gratitude goes to my dear wife Kerstin and our little son Lukas who, despite many extra hours spent in the office, understood that working on this book was a passion and not simply a job. ...

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