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Economic Gardening was built on a foundation of cutting edge thinking by economists and researchers all over the country. For those interested in an entrpreneurial approach to economic development, with a strong grounding in the roles that innovation and ideas, complexity, temperament and industry clusters play in the new economy, we recommend the following people, books, and institutions:

The New Economy

People

• Paul Romer (Stanford, Graduate School of Business)
• Brian Arthur (Stanford, Economics Department)
• AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California at Berkeley,City and Regional Planning)
• Michael Porter (Harvard, Business Administration)
• David Birch (Arc Analytics)
• Paul Krugman (Professor, Stanford, Economics Department)

Books

• The Wealth of Nations — by Michael Porter
• Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 — by AnnaLee Saxenian
• Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy — by Brian Arthur

Institutions

• United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship — Fosters business development through entrepreneurship education and research.
• Edward Lowe Foundation — Championing the entrepreneurial spirit.
• Corporation for Enterprise Development — Fosters widely shared and sustainable economic well being.
• Milken Institute — Helping public policy leaders implement innovative ideas for prosperity.
• Babson College — Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation — Encouraging entrepreneurship across America.
• National Dialog on Entrepreneurship — To improve awareness of the value of entrepreneurship.
• Progressive Policy Institute — Fashioning a new agenda for public innovation geared to the Information Age.
• Hometown Competitiveness — Models of successful small town development.
• Center for Rural Entrepreneurialship — Helping rural America realize its entrepreneural potential.
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation — To help people help themselves.

Media

• Inc. Magazine
• Fast Company Magazine
• Wired Magazine

Complexity

People

• John Holland
• Kevin Kelly
• Stuart Kauffman
• Michael Rothschild
• Murray Gell-Mann
• Margaret Wheatley

Books

• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos — by Mitchell Waldrop
• Bionomics: Economy As Ecosystem — by Michael Rothschild
• Hidden Order — by John Holland
• Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos — by Roger Lewin
• Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation — by Stephen Levy
• Out of Contol: The Rise of Neo-biological Civilization — by Kevin Kelly
• At Home in the Universe — by Stuart Kauffman
• Navigating Complexity: the Essential Guide to Complexity Theory in Business and Managment — by Arthur Battram
• A Simpler Way — by Margaret Wheatley
• Linked: The New Science of Networks — by Albert-Lazlo Barabasi
• Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier — by Robert Axelrod
• Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks — by Mark Buchanan
• The Quark and the Jaguar — by Murray Gell-Mann

Institutions

• Santa Fe Institute — Multi-disciplinary collaboration pursuing emerging science.
• Plexus Institute — Engaging the self organizing principles of nature

Temperament

Books

• Please Understand Me — by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
• Gifts Differing — by Isabel Briggs Myers
• The Character of Organizations — by William Bridges
• Temperament and Type Dynamics — by the Temperament Research Institute

Institutions

• Center For Psychological Type
• Temperament Research Institute