Table of Contents

Wider Perspectives on Global Development; G.A.Cornia, M.Pohjola & A.Shorrocks The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem; D.C.North More Instruments and Broader Goals; Moving Toward the Post-Washington Consensus; J.E.Stiglitz Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus; A.B.Atkinson Globalization and Appropriate Governance; J.N.Bhagwati Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of Development; F.Stewart Winners and Losers over Two Centuries of Globalization; J.G.Williamson Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms; K.Basu Rethinking Growth Strategies; D.Rodrik

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ANTHONY B. ATKINSON Warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK KAUSHIK BASU C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University, USA JAGDISH. N. BHAGWATI Professor, Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, USA GIOVANNI ANDREA CORNIA Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, Italy DOUGLASS C. NORTH Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, USA MATTI POHJOLA Professor of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland DANI RODRIK Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA ANTHONY SHORROCKS Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research/United Nations University (UNU/WIDER), Finland FRANCES STEWART Professor of Development Economics and Director, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford, UK JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, USA JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Center for International Development, Harvard University, USA