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Dani Rodrik

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Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation professor of international political economy at Harvard’s John F Kennedy school of government. His latest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy

May 2020

  • Healthcare workers protest against the handling of the coronavirus crisis in Liège, Belgium, May 2020

    Humans are not resources. Coronavirus shows why we must democratise work

    Nancy Fraser, Susan Neiman , Chantal Mouffe, Saskia Sassen, Jan-Werner Müller, Dani Rodrik, Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman, Ha-Joon Chang, and many others
    Our health and lives cannot be ruled by market forces alone. Now thousands of scholars are calling for a way out of the crisis, say Chantal Mouffe, Thomas Piketty and many others

November 2017

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    The long read
    The fatal flaw of neoliberalism: it's bad economics

    The long read: Neoliberalism and its usual prescriptions – always more markets, always less government – are in fact a perversion of mainstream economics

January 2009

  • Fixing the global economy

    Dani Rodrik

    Dani Rodrik: Poor policy choices could permanently damage the global economy. The world must act pragmatically and creatively

October 2008

  • The death of Wall Street

    Dani Rodrik

    Dani Rodrik: Was it murder or suicide? There are many suspects, and the evidence is mixed, so we may never get a final post-mortem

August 2008

  • Don't cry for Doha

    Dani Rodrik

    Dani Rodrik: The latest round of trade talks were never really about development. So their collapse doesn't change anything

July 2008

May 2008

  • Think small

    Dani Rodrik

    Dani Rodrik: Poor countries need help tackling the specific, local problems that hold them back, rather than one-size-fits-all institutional reform

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