Leading academics and practitioners from the fields of economics, international relations, and law will examine global economic institutions as a whole.

U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and others on the Doha round, the WTO, and the future of free trade.

James McNerney, chairman of the National Export Council and CEO of the Boeing Corporation, will deliver a keynote address describing the joint agenda of the government and the council, as well as strategies for achieving the nation's export-doubling goal.

Politicians have frequently directed harsh rhetoric toward particular corporate taxpayers that earn high profits. At times, this rhetoric has been accompanied by policy proposals that single out a narrow set of profitable taxpayers for disparate treatment. Perhaps the most notable example is the war against Big Oil.

Trade policy has become one of the important issues of the presidential campaign. Topics range from disagreements over outsourcing to calls for mandatory new labor and environmental standards. While President George W. Bush and his advisers proudly advertise their post-2001 accomplishments, Senator John Kerry has called for a moratorium on...