From the Washington Consensus to the Berlin Declaration
Dani Rodrik, Laura Tyson, and Thomas Fricke Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, is
Focus on Productivity, Not Technology
CAMBRIDGE – Economists have long argued that productivity is the foundation of prosperity. The only way a country can increase its
Washington’s New Narrative for the Global Economy
CAMBRIDGE – Two competing agendas are currently vying to shape the United States’ domestic and foreign economic policies. One agenda
Getting Productivism Right
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – I wrote recently about the possible emergence, from both the left and right of the political spectrum, of a
Inflation Heresies
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – The specter of inflation is once again stalking the world, after a long period of dormancy during
The Metamorphosis of Growth Policy
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – Development policy has long been divided between two types of approaches. One approach targets poor people
How Economists and Non-Economists Can Get Along
By Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
The Coming Global Technology Fracture
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – The international trade regime we now have, expressed in the rules of the World Trade Organization
China as Economic Bogeyman
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries
Tackling Inequality from the Middle
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – Inequality looms larger on policymakers’ agenda today than it has in a long time. With the political