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Governance, Finance, and Entrepreneurship: Global Lessons for Indian Country Policy Makers

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This is the substance of a talk I am giving on Tuesday, Nov. 6 (yep, election day) at the Society for Government Economists' annual conference at George Washington U. in Washington, DC . Many thanks to my colleagues Eddie Welch and Bill Swart for their comments on earlier drafts. By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy, Augustana College SD                 For seven years I taught a course in the MBA program at New York University’s Stern School of Business called “Global Perspectives on Enterprise Systems.” During that span, two other professors who taught that same course, business historian George Smith and financial historian Richard Sylla, joined me to create and elaborate an heuristic device we called the “Diamond of Sustainable Growth” to help students to better understand the economic development process. As we read widely in comparative economic history and worked with students to apply the model to specific countries across the globe and across history