00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000165831 IPP 20200702040655.0 200702s2015 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Murphy, Peter The stranger society the case of economic and social development in the tropics 2015 table bibliography The economic and social prosperity of nations are usually attributed to functional requirements—such as honest government, effective transport and communication networks, health care and education—and development strategies such as investment in infrastructure. However, beyond a certain point peak economic and social success relies as much on human ingenuity as on capital investment. The article proposes that the world’s most prosperous societies have three recurring characteristics that foster such ingenuity: (1) they are all closely connected to trading portals, (2) they nourish paradoxical belief systems that underscore a proclivity for intellectual abstraction and pattern-based interaction, and (3) they are stranger societies that encourage high levels of interaction between unknown persons. Economic development Social development Budhi: a Journal of Ideas and Culture Vol. 19, no. 2&3 (Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2015), 107-134 UPD DMLP Article FI