Robert Wade

Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy at The London School of Economics, and winner of the Leontief Prize in Economics 2008. A New Zealander, educated in Washington DC, New Zealand, and at Sussex University, he has worked at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (1972-95), the World Bank (1984-88), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School (1989/90), MIT's Sloan School ( 1992), and Brown University (1996-2000). His associations have included Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1992/93), the Russell Sage Foundation (1997/98), the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (2000/01). He has carried out fieldwork on Pitcairn Island, in Italy, India, Korea, and Taiwan. His research on World Bank began in 1995 and continues. Wade is the author of Irrigation and Politics in South Korea (1982), Village Republics: The Economic Conditions of Collective Action in India (1988, 1994), Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (1990, 2003). The latter won the American Political Science Association's award of Best Book in Political Economy, 1992.