Rodrik of Harvard Business School?

Head of Research at Oxfam reviews Fixing Failed States;

In a manner analogous to the ‘growth diagnostics’ of the Harvard Business School, the authors argue that ‘the state-building agenda entails easing constraints on state institutions… Rather than adhering to a model that stipulates a priori both the institutions and the mechanisms for their creation, this approach encourages piecemeal, context-specific innovations.’ This ‘institutions diagnostics’ approach necessarily entails a lot of trial and error – a job for searchers, not planners, in William Easterly’s useful schema .