Dani Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a leading scholar of globalization and economic development. His most recent book is The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
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Dani Rodrik
Commentaries by Dani Rodrik
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What Use Are Economists?
CAMBRIDGE – When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economis…
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What the World Needs from the BRICS
CAMBRIDGE – In 2001, Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill famously coined the term BRIC to characterize the world’s four largest developing economies …
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National Governments, Global Citizens
CAMBRIDGE – Nothing endangers globalization more than the yawning governance gap – the dangerous disparity between the national scope of pol…
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The Tyranny of Political Economy
CAMBRIDGE – There was a time when we economists steered clear of politics. We viewed our job as describing how market economies work, when t…
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The New Mercantilist Challenge
CAMBRIDGE – The history of economics is largely a struggle between two opposing schools of thought, “liberalism” and “mercantilism.” Economi…
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Global Capital Rules
CAMBRIDGE – It’s official. The International Monetary Fund has put its stamp of approval on capital controls, thereby legitimizing the use o…
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America’s Third-World Politics
CAMBRIDGE – With its presidential election over, the United States can finally take a breather from campaign politics, at least for a while.…
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The Truth About Sovereignty
CAMBRIDGE – In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied tha…
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After the Millennium Development Goals
CAMBRIDGE – In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into a set of concrete targ…
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No More Growth Miracles
CAMBRIDGE – A year ago, economic analysts were giddy with optimism about the prospects for economic growth in the developing world. In contr…
Milton Friedman’s Magical Thinking
Michael Belzer: An historical error here. Jimmy Carter was president in 1980. He brought Prof. Alfred Kahn from Cornell into the government as his "inflation czar" in 1977, and Fred Kahn turned the regulatory ship, …
Milton Friedman’s Magical Thinking
Frank O'Callaghan: Milton Friedman’s views are well known. Even better known is the evidence of history. Free markets are inherently unstable. They are of benefit only to the powerful and do great social, environmental …