Louis Putterman teaches economic development, the economics of organization, and comparative economic systems at Brown University. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and author or editor of a number of books, including Economics, Values and Organization (1998) and Dollars and Change: Economics in Context (2001). His recent research focuses on the behavioral underpinnings of cooperation, on values and economic arrangements, on economic reform in China, and on the long period determinants of recent economic growth.