Dani Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy and Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. His newest book Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy will be published in Fall 2017.
Last December, in a move to regain market confidence, Brazil’s National Congress adopted an unprecedented constitutional amendment that caps non-interest government expenditures for at least a decade.… read more
Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen was much-needed good news for anyone who favors open, liberal democratic societies over their nativist, xenophobic counterparts. But the battle against rig… read more
Gone are the days when policy elites confidently asserted that globalization benefits everyone: we must, they now concede, accept that economic openness produces both winners and losers. But, as Donal… read more
The EU is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty, the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community. There is indeed much to celebrate, and yet the Union is mired … read more
Cosmopolitans often come across like the character from Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov who discovers that the more he loves humanity in general, the less he likes people in particular. Global ci… read more
Donald Trump has yet to take office, but his brand of flawed industrial policy has been on full display since his surprise election victory. Once Trump is inaugurated, we can expect his administration… read more
While developing countries may continue to pursue smaller trade agreements, the two major deals on the table, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, are … read more
Economists' zeal to defend trade from its enemies has backfired. If the demagogues making nonsensical claims about trade are now getting a hearing – and, in the US and elsewhere, actually winning powe… read more
Concerns that the current backlash against globalization augurs a surge in growth-hampering protectionism are highly exaggerated. In fact, as was apparent in the 1980s, some tempering of hyper-globali… read more
