http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/roads_to_prosperity <p><em>Is free trade always the best policy? Should developing countries open their financial systems? Do foreign-exchange controls serve any useful purpose in our globalized world?</em></p> en 2012-02-10T06:00:40+01:00 webmaster@project-syndicate.org Dani Rodrik 1994-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 4 hourly http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik66/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik66/English>RODRIK: Leaderless Global Governance</a> Too much global political capital nowadays is wasted on harmonizing policies that don't need it, and not enough is spent on harmonizing those that do. Over-ambitious and misdirected efforts at global governance will not serve us well at a time when global leadership and cooperation are bound to remain in limited supply. Dani Rodrik 2012-01-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik65/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik65/English>RODRIK: Occupy the Classroom?</a> Early last month, a group of students staged a walkout in Harvard’s popular introductory economics course. The problem is that, while economists know that they must carefully hedge their assertions when talking to each other, they feel no such compunction when addressing the public – or newcomers to the discipline. Dani Rodrik 2011-12-12T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik64/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik64/English>RODRIK: Turkey’s Democratic Dusk</a> Under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule, Turkey has emerged as a regional power. But, whereas the country was once a beacon of democracy in a region accustomed to autocrats, it now looks like it is heading towards authoritarianism at home and adventurism abroad. Dani Rodrik 2011-11-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik63/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik63/English>RODRIK: Europe’s Next Nightmare</a> The economic ramifications of a full-blown Greek default are terrifying, but the political consequences could be far worse. A chaotic eurozone breakup would destabilize not only the highly-indebted European periphery, but also core countries like France and Germany. Dani Rodrik 2011-11-09T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik62/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik62/English>RODRIK: Milton Friedman’s Magical Thinking</a> Free-market enthusiasts’ place in the history of economic thought will remain secure. But thinkers like Milton Friedman leave an ambiguous and puzzling legacy, because it is the interventionists who have succeeded in economic history, where it really matters. Dani Rodrik 2011-10-11T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik61/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik61/English>RODRIK: The Crisis of Fiscal Imagination</a> Greedy banks, bad economic ideas, incompetent politicians: there is no shortage of culprits for the economic crisis in which rich countries are engulfed. But when future generations place our leaders in historical perspective, they will most likely reproach them, above all, for their lack of institutional imagination. Dani Rodrik 2011-09-12T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik60/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik60/English>RODRIK: The Manufacturing Imperative</a> We may live in a post-industrial age, in which information technologies, biotech, and high-value services have become drivers of economic growth. But countries ignore the health of their manufacturing industries at their peril. Dani Rodrik 2011-08-10T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik58/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik58/English>RODRIK: The Future of Economic Growth</a> Greater convergence in the post-crisis global economy – a narrowing of the income gap between rich and poor countries – appears inevitable. But a large reversal in these countries' fortunes seems neither economically likely, nor politically feasible. Dani Rodrik 2011-07-25T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik59/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik59/English>RODRIK: Turkey on Trial</a> In a Hollywood courtroom drama, you know that the hero, set up by the bad guys, will eventually be cleared – but not before the noose tightens around his neck. If Turkey’s ongoing political-military trials ever find their way to the screen, there will be no shortage of such denouements. Dani Rodrik 2011-07-21T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik57/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik57/English>RODRIK: Will Greece Make It?</a> Greece has bought some time with a new package of financial support, but it remains to be seen whether the Greek government's promise of souped-up austerity policies will be politically acceptable and sustainable. History suggests some grounds for skepticism. Dani Rodrik 2011-06-10T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik56/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik56/English>RODRIK: Economists and Democracy</a> Raised on textbooks that obscure the role of institutions, economists often imagine that markets arise on their own, with no help from purposeful, collective action. And, once we recognize that markets require rules, we must next ask who writes those rules. Dani Rodrik 2011-05-11T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik55/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik55/English>RODRIK: Saif Qaddafi and Me</a> There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's – often under political pressure, no doubt – suffered a grave lapse of judgment. But many of the critics would fall over each other for a chance to advise China's leaders. Dani Rodrik 2011-04-12T00:00:00+02:00