Widespread agricultural policy reform would undoubtedly improve global economic welfare but would also produce a complex pattern of economic winners and losers. Using a combination of global, national and household level analysis, this study examines such distributional implications focusing...

Introduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the book -- Harvard, Princeton and Yale -- Where rigid order meets random chaos -- Leap-frog : a short history of economic policy -- Immigration : the google guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The buffett...