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...

"At least one leading practitioner of organizational design has come, like myself, to the conclusion that organizaton theory does not have much to offer on the question of appropriate design. William Smith, who in 1980 wrote a long paper called 'The design of organizations for rural...