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In response to increasing globalization, new models that show how factors & actors interact are being suggested. One of the older models, the iron triangles, symbolically represent the Second Industrial Revolution & its three sides represent politicians, bureaucrats, & interests. That model is being replaced with the golden pentangles model that includes the three sides from the iron triangles but also includes the highly institutionalized activities of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, & the World Trade Organization as one of the new sides, & the interlocking web of governance composed of mixed public/private sector quasi-institutions & nonstate actors as the remaining. This model has a tendency to be more elitist because the actors will be transnationally linked but at the same time increases competition between the groups that limits the chances for a monolithic state. Research will further the understanding of the structure of the golden pentangles. R. Larsen

Examines evolution and crisis of the Japanese construction industry and implications of the "iron triangle" model; 1970-2001.

Six books are reviewed: 1. IMF Essays From a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development, by Stanley Fischer, 2. The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability, by William W. Lewis, 3. High-Tech Protectionism: The Irrationality of Antidumping Laws, by Claude E. Barfield, 4. Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries, by Jonathan Crystal, 5. Structural Reform in Japan: Breaking the Iron Triangle, by Eisuke Sakakibara, and 6. Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology, by Thomas Bernauer.