This book reprints 18 essays selected from almost 30 years of work by the author as a high level official at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core analytical thinking behind positions taken by these...

Labor standards and international competitive advantage / Robert J. Flanagan -- International labor standards and decent work: perspectives from the developing world / Gary S. Fields -- Labor law for a global economy: the uneasy case for international labor standards / William B. Gould IV -- Why...