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Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish
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and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, publi ...
at Harvard University. He was formerly the
Albert O. Hirschman Albert Otto Hirschman (born ''Otto-Albert Hirschmann''; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was a German economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of de ...
Professor of the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and
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. The question of what constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are more successful than others at adopting it is at the center of his research. His works include ''Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science'' and ''The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy''. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal ''
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''.


Biography

Rodrik is descended from a family of Sephardic Jews. After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul,Turkishtime Article (in Turkish)
he obtained an
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degree (
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) in Government and Economics from Harvard College in 1979. He then earned an M.P.A. degree ( with distinction) from
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...
in 1981 and a
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degree in Economics from Princeton University in 1985, with the thesis titled ''Studies on the Welfare Theory of Trade and Exchange-rate Policy''. He had also been writing for the now defunct Turkish daily '' Radikal'' 2009–2016. He joined the newly created World Economics Association as a member of the executive committee in 2011. He is married to Pınar Doğan, a lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the daughter of Turkish retired General Çetin Doğan who was acquitted of an aggravated life imprisonment for his alleged involvement in the alleged Sledgehammer coup plan. As a scholar, he is affiliated with the
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,
Centre for Economic Policy Research The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organisation. Its mission is to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy‐relevant research, based soundly in e ...
(London),
Center for Global Development The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., and London that focuses on international development. History It was founded in November 2001 by former senior U.S. official Edward W. Scott, dire ...
,
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, and the
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, and is co-editor of the ''Review of Economics and Statistics''. He has been the recipient of research grants from the
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, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the
Leontief Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Лео́нтьев; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999), was a Soviet-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one ec ...
Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002 from the
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. On 8 November 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam. On 21 January 2020, Pope Francis named him a member of the
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.


Work

His 1997 book ''Has Globalization Gone Too Far?'' was called “one of the most important economics books of the decade” in
Bloomberg Businessweek ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...
. In his article, he focused on three tensions between the global market and social stability. Pointing out that the so-called "globalization" has a dilemma of promoting international equality while exposing fault lines between the nation states with the skills and capitals to succeed in global markets and those without that advantage, he sees the free market system as a threat to social stability and deeply domestic norms. According to his analysis, there are three categories of reasons on why these tensions arise. First, the tension is caused via globalization because reduced barriers to trade and foreign direct investments draw a vivid line between nations and groups that can take advantage of such cross-border relations and those who cannot. Rodrik refers to the first category of groups as highly skilled workers, professionals and those who are free to take their resources where they are most in demand. The second category would include unskilled workers and semiskilled workers, who, under globalization, as a resource become more elastic and easily substitutive. The second source for tension comes because globalization engenders conflicts within and between nations over domestic norms and social institutions. Technology and culture are being more standardized around the world, and different nations with different norms and values tend to show repulsion toward such collective norms diffused internationally in a standardized form. Lastly, the third threat of globalization arises because it has made it extremely difficult for national governments to provide social insurance. Dani Rodrik is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 1998. He also founded Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) with Suresh Naidu, Gabriel Zucman, and 11 additional founding members in February 2019.


Selected publications

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References


External links


Dani Rodrik's home page

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Dani Rodrik's weblog

"Roads to Prosperity"
Dani Rodrik's op-ed column for Project Syndicate * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodrik, Dani 1957 births Living people Anti-globalization writers École Normale Supérieure alumni Harvard College alumni Princeton University alumni Institute for Advanced Study faculty Robert College alumni Harvard Kennedy School faculty Trade economists Academics from Istanbul Turkish expatriates in the United States Turkish Jews 20th-century Turkish economists 21st-century Turkish economists Social Science Research Council Peterson Institute for International Economics American academics of Turkish descent Academics of the London School of Economics