Articles by Robert Wade

• Lessons from Iceland
  • Robert Wade &
  • Silla Sigurgeirsdóttir

  in NLR 65, September-October 2010, pp. 5-29
  Subjects: Economic Policy , Iceland
  

  The extraordinary rise and fall of Iceland’s financial-casino economy. Wade and Sigurgeirsdóttir describe the island’s neoliberal turn under a quasi-feudal elite turned banking oligopoly, and its prospects amidst the triple crisis—currency, banking, sovereign debt—now bestriding it.

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• Financial Regime Change?
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR 53, September-October 2008, pp. 5-21
  Subjects: World Economy and Globalization , Economic Policy
  

  As stock markets plunge and governments scramble to bail out the finance sector, Robert Wade argues that we are exiting the neoliberal paradigm that has held sway since the 1980s. Causes and repercussions of the crisis, and errors of the model that brought it to fruition.

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• A New Global Financial Architecture?
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 113-129
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  As the world economy shows growing signs of vulnerability, what mechanisms exist for averting repeats of the Asian or Mexican crises? Banking and regulatory regimes as instruments of standardization, pulling national economies into Anglo-American orbits.

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• Choking the South
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR 38, March-April 2006, pp. 115-127
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Charting the impact of fluctuating currencies, volatile stock markets and interest rates on the developing world since the end of the Bretton Woods system, Robert Wade contends that untrammelled mobility of capital—private funds above all—reinforces dynamics of debt and underdevelopment.

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• The Ringmaster of Doha
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR 25, January-February 2004, pp. 146-152
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Robert Wade on Michael Moore, A World Without Walls. The road from Seattle to Cancún. Back-room politics of the global trade agenda in the account of an ex-Director General of the WTO.

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• Showdown at the World Bank
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 124-137
  Subjects: World Economy and Globalization
  

  ‘International financial institutions’ are more national than they seem. Robert Wade reveals how tightly the US Treasury monitors and controls the World Bank, and how quickly it will stamp out departures from its orthodoxy.

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• The Gathering World Slump and the Battle over Capital Controls
  • Robert Wade &
  • Frank Veneroso

  in NLR I/231, September-October 1998, pp. 13-42
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• The Asian Crisis: The High Debt Model Versus the Wall Street-Treasury-IMF Complex
  • Robert Wade &
  • Frank Veneroso

  in NLR I/228, March-April 1998, pp. 3-23
  Subjects: Economic Theory , Japan , Southeast Asia , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective
  • Robert Wade

  in NLR I/217, May-June 1996, pp. 3-36
  Subjects: Economic Theory , Japan , World Economy and Globalization
  

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