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Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik

Writing for PS since 1998
229 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, is President of the International Economic Association and the author of Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2017).

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  1. What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do
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    What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do

    Jan 8, 2025 Dani Rodrik argues that import duties are neither an all-purpose tool, as Donald Trump believes, nor a purposeless one.

  2. Why Bidenomics Did Not Deliver at the Polls
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    Why Bidenomics Did Not Deliver at the Polls

    Dec 4, 2024 Dani Rodrik thinks the Democrats were right to embrace economic populism, but neglected to update it for this century.

  3. Middle Powers Will Make a Multipolar World
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    Middle Powers Will Make a Multipolar World

    Nov 11, 2024 Dani Rodrik expects relatively large economies to emerge as a countervailing force vis-à-vis America and China.

  4. The Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Test
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    The Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Test

    Oct 10, 2024 Dani Rodrik explains how to steer international economic-policy debates toward what really matters.

  5. A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy
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    A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

    Sep 9, 2024 Dani Rodrik weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.

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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

    wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.

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