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Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik

Writing for PS since 1998
231 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. The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Feb 28, 2025 Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.

  2. How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs
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    How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs

    Feb 6, 2025 Dani Rodrik advises America’s trade partners not to embrace retaliation, because that would harm mainly themselves.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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    Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting.
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    Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

    Chris Patten outlines steps UK policymakers must take to mitigate the strategic threat posed by the Trump administration.
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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    The Opacity of Hope

    Jonathan Levy

    Former US President Barack Obama tried to move beyond the fearmongering of the George W. Bush era and unite the country around his own political persona. But as initial optimism gave way to disillusionment, fear once again took hold, setting the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.

    reflects on how the politics promoted by America’s first Black president gave rise to its first felonious one.
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    A New Gulf Growth Model

    Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends.
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    Small States Mean Big Returns

    Adnan Hassan sees lucrative investment opportunities in countries capable of adapting efficiently to rapid economic change.
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    AI Will Not Supercharge GDP Growth

    Adair Turner expects the technology to be everywhere but in the measured GDP statistics.

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