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Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
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The Perils of Premature Deindustrialization. Dani Rodrik, October 11, 2013, Opinion. "Most of today’s advanced economies became what they are by traveling the well-worn path of industrialization. A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the ashes of the traditional craft and guild systems, transforming agrarian societies into urban ones. Peasants became factory workers, a process that underpinned not only an unprecedented rise in economic productivity, but also a wholesale revolution in social and political organization. The labor movement led to mass politics..." Link verified June 19, 2014