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Part 1 Theorizing economic diversity and economic action: action anddiversity versus models of growth; possible worlds of production; firms,profits, work and innovation; situating firms in worlds of production. Part 2Worlds of production in three countries: identifying real worlds ofproduction in France, Italy and the United States; France - innovative realworlds of fashion and high technology; Italy - interpersonal action and thedivision of labour; California high technology - the intellectual world in amarket context; selection, stability and transformation of real worlds ofproduction. Part 3 Institutions, states and the co-ordination of real worlds:states and institutions as conventions; state intervention - a critique ofthe French case; competitiveness, situated states and real worlds in threecountries. Part 4 Conventions, economic action and institutions: a critiqueof contemporary institutionalism; toward a theory of conventions, economicaction and economic development.