Introduction Erin Hannah, James Scott, and Silke Trommer Part I The language of expert knowledge: the power of discourse, metaphors, and myth-making 1 Talking trade: common sense knowledge in the multilateral trade regime RORDEN WILKINSON 2 The spectre of Smoot-Hawley and the global trading system: sustaining free trade through the crisis GABRIEL SILES-BRUGGE 3 Trade policy communities, expert language, and the dehumanization of world trade SILKE TROMMER Part II The substance of expert knowledge: the power of law and econometrics 4 Expertise through experience: inequality and legitimacy in the juridification of international trade disputing JOSEPH CONTI 5 Numbers: the role of computable general equilibrium modeling in legitimizing trade policy CLIVE GEORGE 6 The double movement of law and expertise ANDREW LANG Part III The agency of expert knowledge: the power of NGOs and organic intellectuals 7 Symbolic power and social critique in the making of Oxfam's trade policy research MATTHEW EAGLETON-PIERCE 8 Ratcheting up accountability? Embedded NGOs in the multilateral trade system ERIN HANNAH 9 Southern intellectual leadership in the construction of global trade knowledge JAMES SCOTT.