Introduction : bringing domestic institutions back in / Linda Weiss -- Disappearing taxes or the 'race to the middle'? Fiscal policy in the OECD / John Hobson -- Withering welfare? Globalisation, political economic institutions, and contemporary welfare states / Duane Swank -- Globalisation and...

Lecture 1. Confronting conventional threats to free trade: the postwar revolution in the theory of commercial policy -- Lecture 2. "Fair trade," income distribution, and social agendas: using trade theory to meet new challenges -- Lecture 3. Getting to free trade: alternative approaches and...

Managing in an age of modularity / Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark -- Fast, global, and entrepreneurial : supply chain management, Hong Kong style : an interview with Victor Fung / Joan Magretta -- How Chrysler created an American Keiretsu / Jeffrey H. Dyer -- The power of trust in...

What's at stake : developing-country interests in the DOHA development round / Merlinda D. Ingco, John D. Nash -- Trade agreements : achievements and issues ahead / Merlinda D. Ingco, John Croome -- Export competition policies / Harry de Gorter, Lilian Ruiz, Merlinda D. Ingco -- Market access :...

"Remember the past, but build for the future" : address to the Rwandan National Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda -- Rich, poor should join hands for sustainable development -- A time to act : address to the board of governors at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,...

The literature of innovation is full of calls to become more creative and inspiring: but it has less to say on the reality of turning theory into practice and ideas into profit. Real breakthroughs depend on finding profitable applications for new ideas. The beneficiaries of countless innovations...

The dynamics of globalization / Laurence Harris -- Economic policies and external performance in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Machiko Nissanke -- Governments and external performance in Africa / Beatrice Weder -- Local entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and...