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Dani Rodrik

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.


Commentaries by Dani Rodrik

  • Newsart for What Use Are Economists?

    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…

  • Newsart for What the World Needs from the BRICS

    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 …

  • Newsart for National Governments, Global Citizens

    National Governments, Global Citizens

    CAMBRIDGE – Nothing endangers globalization more than the yawning governance gap – the dangerous disparity between the national scope of pol…

  • Newsart for The Tyranny of Political Economy

    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…

  • Newsart for The New Mercantilist Challenge

    The New Mercantilist Challenge

    CAMBRIDGE – The history of economics is largely a struggle between two opposing schools of thought, “liberalism” and “mercantilism.” Economi…

  • Newsart for Global Capital Rules

    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…

  • Newsart for America’s Third-World Politics

    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.…

  • Newsart for The Truth About Sovereignty

    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…

  • Newsart for After the Millennium Development Goals

    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…

  • Newsart for No More Growth Miracles

    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…

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  • What Use Are Economists?

    Edward Ponderer: In his 1989 NEW REALITIES, among a number of insightful predictions, Peter F. Drucker warns of the implication of a global economy on 4 tiers of nonlinear equations as likely indicating deterministic …

  • What Use Are Economists?

    Stamatis Kavvadias: It is pretty obvious that economists are more appreciated in politics than can be supported by the immature science supporting their knowledge. It is astonishing that the author does not even go as fa…

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