There's much to like about this column by Dani Rodrik on the way that we have different opinions about the validity, perhaps the desirability, of changes in the distribution of income from different ...

A Harvard economist’s new book offers an unconvincing argument for government intervention in the American economy. Dani Rodrik is on a mission to save globalization — not from its enemies, but from ...

Almost exactly a year to the day after How the World Works first fell under the spell of economist Dani Rodrik, the New York Times is featuring a profile by Louis Uchitelle of the Harvard professor ...

It goes without saying that a Harvard professor is going to be brighter than I am: and it's thus somewhat foolhardy to disagree with him on the subject of his own expertise. But sometimes these silly ...

Dani Rodrik, in the context of the EU trade commissioner criticizing Hillary Clinton, wonders why free-traders engage in fear mongering. “Why is it,” asks the Harvard economist Rodrik, “that anyone ...

Why do some countries grow faster than others? Which policies help growth and which ones hinder it? A development strategy that identifies and attacks country-specific barriers to growth is the key to ...

I first learned of Dani Rodrik in 1997 when I came across his pamphlet, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?. That pamphlet created a sensation in a Washington awash with “new economy” optimism. It was an ...

An increasingly global economy doesn’t have to mean the collapse of social institutions within countries, Kennedy School professor and economist Dani Rodrik ’79 argued in a talk held by the Safra ...