Most of the time we read about Israel and Palestine in political-military terms: military incursions, separation barriers, 'terrorism', useless diplomacy. But day to day life is, of course, primarily about ordinary survival and people trying to make a living. We do learn, sometimes, about how closures, or the wall, or checkpoints, affect Palestinian economic activity. But within the economic sphere itself, the world of production, distribution, policy formulation - here too we find the struggle reproduced in the terms of this action and discourse. This is Robert Wade, from the London Review of Books website, reflecting on a recent visit to the West Bank. Wade is a professor at the LSE, and a winner of the 2008 Leontif Prize in Economics:
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