We review the literature analyzing the impact of pro-market institutions on firms' global
strategy. We propose that the ideological tension between whether the government or the …

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with
economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is …

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems
and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of …

Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the
last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique …

In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither
globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon …

In the presence of uncertainty about what a country can be good at producing, there can be
great social value to discovering costs of domestic activities because such discoveries can …

Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics
and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in …

This paper explores the origins and trajectory of the Washington Consensus–the ideas
associated with the develo** countries' move to free markets in the 1980s and 1990s. I …

Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of
communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and …

This study proposes that promarket reforms positively affect firms' profitability in develo**
countries because the accompanying improvements in external monitoring decrease firms' …