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About Us
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is a research center that brings together scholars from economics, political science, public policy, sociology, business, law and other fields to study contemporary processes of globalization and international economic integration. WAGE is a member program of the International Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, WAGE shares international expertise with the businesses, government, and public of Wisconsin. We organize and fund university events, faculty research, graduate education, and public outreach concerning economic globalization and its governance. Today’s more open global economy requires an interdisciplinary approach to address the diverse and interrelated policy challenges resulting from intensified cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, people and ideas. Faculty affiliated with WAGE are interested in institutions and arrangements for the governance of economic globalization at all levels - international, regional, national, and subnational - and interpret relevant policy areas broadly to include, as examples, trade, finance, industry, agriculture, environment, law, health care, labor, science and technology, social policy, exchange rates, and macroeconomic management.
Four multi-year collaboratives anchor WAGE’s programming from 2005-2008. Each collaborative supports an active scholarly dialogue, graduate student training, campus events, and public outreach.
- Current Account Sustainability: Analyzes the ability of the major economies of the world (“the G-5”) to sustain large current account deficits over prolonged periods.
- Governing Global Insecurities: Focuses on the new insecurities the process of globalization has created for states and societies, with special emphasis on the globalization of violence and ecological risk.
- New Governance: Investigates new governance approaches arising out of efforts to promote international economic integration while preserving and updating distinctive national systems of social and environmental protection.
- Technology Entrepreneurship & Institutions: Explores how organizational contexts influence technology entrepreneurship and how the latter influences the creation of markets and institutions that support innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.
WAGE works with the public and private sectors to ensure Wisconsin excels in the global marketplace. Through our International Trade Partnership, we offer monthly opportunities to learn about practical issues, new trends, and the larger context of engaging in international trade. On campus and off through special events and our Speakers Bureau, we regularly bring the public, government, business, and faculty together to explore challenges and solutions for governing and competing in a global economy.
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