Glenn C. Altschuler reviews The Great Brain Race for The Boston Globe where he is not content merely calling the book “An informative, early-days assessment of a new phenomenon: ‘free trade in minds.’” He continues on to say,

Acknowledging missteps and problems, [Wildavsky] claims, with a bow to author Thomas Friedman, that an increasingly flat academic world will bring unprecedented economic, social, and political benefits, innovative research, and spread meritocratic values to emerging nations.