Robert Wade on the Global Financial Crisis

Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics, is a scholar and intellectual activist who should need no introduction for Development and Change readers. He has had a remarkably prolific career in the field of economic development, authoring numerous influential articles and books on themes as varied as irrigation and politics, industrial policy, (global) income distribution and, recently, the global crisis. His book Governing the Market, winner of the American Political Science Association's award for Best Book in Political Economy in 1992, became a life-raft for many scholars and students who opted to jump out of the single intellectual ship that was allowed to navigate in the neoclassical seas of development studies for many years. The second edition (2004) brought the story up to date, including the trajectory from ‘miracle’ to crash and from crash to recovery. Its publication was welcomed by those who, like me, found themselves reading photocopies of photocopies of heavily marked first edition originals; it was also a corroboration of the indefatigable commitment of Professor Wade. 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