Robert Wade
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Wade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Wade |
| SIGNATURE | WADE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1,593 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality
Journal Article The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology Get access JON D. WISMAN. The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. 2022. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 528. ISBN 9780197575949. Robert H Wade Robert H Wade London School of Economics, London, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, bza…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 2
This is the second part of the essay on the circumstances that led the World Bank to embrace norms and operational policies for environmental and indigenous people's protection in the late 1980s, as traced through the turbulent history of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon. Polonoroeste became the spearhead with which environmental NGOs made their first attack on the Bank for participating in large-scale environmental and indig…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 1
Before the mid 1980s the World Bank conceived "nature" as something to be "conquered" and "environment" as a source of resources for "development". By the late 1980s the Bank incorporated norms of environmental sustainability and indigenous peoples' protection into its mandate, and other development-oriented IOs followed. This two-part paper describes how a fight over the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon - inside the Bank, betwee…
Political order and inequality
This is one of those rare books which elicit a ‘Wow!’ at the sight of the table of contents, a ‘Wow!’ when one reaches the end several days later, and many more in between. I imagine that Adam Smith's Wealth of nations provoked a similar response from its early readers, if in different language. Boix presents nothing less than a theory explaining why we humans have constructed the state (an organization with the capacity and incentives to monopol…
The Piketty phenomenon
Two gentlemen relax in mahogany-panelled clubland. One says to the other, looking up from his newspaper, "The poor are getting poorer, but
Iceland's meltdown
This paper shows how rapid privatization and liberalization of Iceland's small local banks around 2000, combined with well-developed crony relations among the elite, enabled a small group of financiers to leverage government-guaranteed deposits into a vast wave of mergers and acquisitions abroad, and redistribute enough of the profits back home to make the economy boom. Negative policy feedback loops were systematically undermined. The incoming l…
Emerging World Order? From Multipolarity to Multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF
Many developing and transitional countries have grown faster than advanced countries in the past decade, resulting in a shift in the distribution of world income in their favor. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Japan. As the relative economic weight of China and several others has come to match or exceed that of the middle-ranking G7 economies, the world economy has shifted from 'unipolar…
States and Development
A nation that opens its economy and keeps government's role to a minimum invariably experiences more rapid economic growth and rising incomes, so said a New York Times reporter by way of summarizing the prevailing view of business executives and government leaders at the World Economic Forum in New York City in February 2002. It is a good summary of the neoliberal belief system which has shaped since the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Previ ously, …
The Coming Fight over Capital Flows
T he test of a first-rate intelligence, said F. Scott Fitzgerald, is ability to hold two opposing views at same time and still function. In today's convulsing economy, this ability is essential to sanity, if not survival. One day Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, and Dow jumps 350 points; next day brings news of labor unrest in Brazil, and Dow plunges. One week situation seems to be stabilizing; next week Alan Greenspan, chairman of Federal Re…
The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia
Journal Article The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. Get access The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. By Chowdhury (Anis) and Islam (Iyanatul). (London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xiv + 288. £45.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 06876 2, 0 415 09749 5.) Robert Wade Robert Wade University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issu…
Managing Trade
There is nothing that economists more about than the virtues of free or almost free trade. So says Jagdish Bhagwati, a distinguished trade theorist, who claims that belief in the superiority of the promotion (or near free trade) strategy over the substitution strategy is all but universal among economists, insofar as any kind of consensus can ever be found in our tribe.' Bhagwati's claim is supported by a survey of economists' opinions.2 The surv…
The Logic of the Developmental State
Governing the Market
Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade turned attention to the way allocation decisions were divided…
What Can Economics Learn from East Asian Success
Most economics literature on East Asian industrialization falls victim to the assumption that only those features of economic policy consistent with neoclassical principles could have contributed to good economic performance. Explanations of good performance accordingly ignore nonneoclassical features. This article suggests that new insights can be gained by carefully examining what these governments actually did. We find that much of what they d…
Village republics
Governing the Market
Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade turned attention to the way allocation decisions were divided…
The Logic of the Developmental State
Emerging World Order? From Multipolarity to Multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF
Many developing and transitional countries have grown faster than advanced countries in the past decade, resulting in a shift in the distribution of world income in their favor. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Japan. As the relative economic weight of China and several others has come to match or exceed that of the middle-ranking G7 economies, the world economy has shifted from 'unipolar…
Village republics
Managing Trade
There is nothing that economists more about than the virtues of free or almost free trade. So says Jagdish Bhagwati, a distinguished trade theorist, who claims that belief in the superiority of the promotion (or near free trade) strategy over the substitution strategy is all but universal among economists, insofar as any kind of consensus can ever be found in our tribe.' Bhagwati's claim is supported by a survey of economists' opinions.2 The surv…
The Coming Fight over Capital Flows
T he test of a first-rate intelligence, said F. Scott Fitzgerald, is ability to hold two opposing views at same time and still function. In today's convulsing economy, this ability is essential to sanity, if not survival. One day Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, and Dow jumps 350 points; next day brings news of labor unrest in Brazil, and Dow plunges. One week situation seems to be stabilizing; next week Alan Greenspan, chairman of Federal Re…
The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia
Journal Article The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. Get access The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. By Chowdhury (Anis) and Islam (Iyanatul). (London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xiv + 288. £45.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 06876 2, 0 415 09749 5.) Robert Wade Robert Wade University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issu…
What Can Economics Learn from East Asian Success
Most economics literature on East Asian industrialization falls victim to the assumption that only those features of economic policy consistent with neoclassical principles could have contributed to good economic performance. Explanations of good performance accordingly ignore nonneoclassical features. This article suggests that new insights can be gained by carefully examining what these governments actually did. We find that much of what they d…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 1
Before the mid 1980s the World Bank conceived "nature" as something to be "conquered" and "environment" as a source of resources for "development". By the late 1980s the Bank incorporated norms of environmental sustainability and indigenous peoples' protection into its mandate, and other development-oriented IOs followed. This two-part paper describes how a fight over the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon - inside the Bank, betwee…
The Piketty phenomenon
Two gentlemen relax in mahogany-panelled clubland. One says to the other, looking up from his newspaper, "The poor are getting poorer, but
Iceland's meltdown
This paper shows how rapid privatization and liberalization of Iceland's small local banks around 2000, combined with well-developed crony relations among the elite, enabled a small group of financiers to leverage government-guaranteed deposits into a vast wave of mergers and acquisitions abroad, and redistribute enough of the profits back home to make the economy boom. Negative policy feedback loops were systematically undermined. The incoming l…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 2
This is the second part of the essay on the circumstances that led the World Bank to embrace norms and operational policies for environmental and indigenous people's protection in the late 1980s, as traced through the turbulent history of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon. Polonoroeste became the spearhead with which environmental NGOs made their first attack on the Bank for participating in large-scale environmental and indig…
Village republics
What Can Economics Learn from East Asian Success
Most economics literature on East Asian industrialization falls victim to the assumption that only those features of economic policy consistent with neoclassical principles could have contributed to good economic performance. Explanations of good performance accordingly ignore nonneoclassical features. This article suggests that new insights can be gained by carefully examining what these governments actually did. We find that much of what they d…
Governing the Market
Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade turned attention to the way allocation decisions were divided…
The Logic of the Developmental State
Managing Trade
There is nothing that economists more about than the virtues of free or almost free trade. So says Jagdish Bhagwati, a distinguished trade theorist, who claims that belief in the superiority of the promotion (or near free trade) strategy over the substitution strategy is all but universal among economists, insofar as any kind of consensus can ever be found in our tribe.' Bhagwati's claim is supported by a survey of economists' opinions.2 The surv…
The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia
Journal Article The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. Get access The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia. By Chowdhury (Anis) and Islam (Iyanatul). (London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xiv + 288. £45.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 06876 2, 0 415 09749 5.) Robert Wade Robert Wade University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issu…
The Coming Fight over Capital Flows
T he test of a first-rate intelligence, said F. Scott Fitzgerald, is ability to hold two opposing views at same time and still function. In today's convulsing economy, this ability is essential to sanity, if not survival. One day Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, and Dow jumps 350 points; next day brings news of labor unrest in Brazil, and Dow plunges. One week situation seems to be stabilizing; next week Alan Greenspan, chairman of Federal Re…
States and Development
A nation that opens its economy and keeps government's role to a minimum invariably experiences more rapid economic growth and rising incomes, so said a New York Times reporter by way of summarizing the prevailing view of business executives and government leaders at the World Economic Forum in New York City in February 2002. It is a good summary of the neoliberal belief system which has shaped since the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Previ ously, …
Iceland's meltdown
This paper shows how rapid privatization and liberalization of Iceland's small local banks around 2000, combined with well-developed crony relations among the elite, enabled a small group of financiers to leverage government-guaranteed deposits into a vast wave of mergers and acquisitions abroad, and redistribute enough of the profits back home to make the economy boom. Negative policy feedback loops were systematically undermined. The incoming l…
Emerging World Order? From Multipolarity to Multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF
Many developing and transitional countries have grown faster than advanced countries in the past decade, resulting in a shift in the distribution of world income in their favor. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Japan. As the relative economic weight of China and several others has come to match or exceed that of the middle-ranking G7 economies, the world economy has shifted from 'unipolar…
The Piketty phenomenon
Two gentlemen relax in mahogany-panelled clubland. One says to the other, looking up from his newspaper, "The poor are getting poorer, but
Political order and inequality
This is one of those rare books which elicit a ‘Wow!’ at the sight of the table of contents, a ‘Wow!’ when one reaches the end several days later, and many more in between. I imagine that Adam Smith's Wealth of nations provoked a similar response from its early readers, if in different language. Boix presents nothing less than a theory explaining why we humans have constructed the state (an organization with the capacity and incentives to monopol…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 2
This is the second part of the essay on the circumstances that led the World Bank to embrace norms and operational policies for environmental and indigenous people's protection in the late 1980s, as traced through the turbulent history of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon. Polonoroeste became the spearhead with which environmental NGOs made their first attack on the Bank for participating in large-scale environmental and indig…
Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 1
Before the mid 1980s the World Bank conceived "nature" as something to be "conquered" and "environment" as a source of resources for "development". By the late 1980s the Bank incorporated norms of environmental sustainability and indigenous peoples' protection into its mandate, and other development-oriented IOs followed. This two-part paper describes how a fight over the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon - inside the Bank, betwee…
The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality
Journal Article The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology Get access JON D. WISMAN. The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. 2022. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 528. ISBN 9780197575949. Robert H Wade Robert H Wade London School of Economics, London, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, bza…
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