Professor Robert Wade

Born Sydney, NZ citizen, PhD from Sussex U. Research in Pitcairn Is., Italy, India, South Korea, Taiwan, & World Bank. Employed at Sussex U, Princeton, MIT, Brown, World Bank, US Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment. Recent writing on global growth, inequality, & poverty; economic ideologies; financial crises and reforms to global finance.

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Saturday 31 October 2009, 3.30pm Courtyard Gallery
Publications

Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton, 2003)


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