HKS Affiliated Authors
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
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The Political Economy of Ideas: On Ideas Versus Interests in Policymaking. Dani Rodrik, March 2018, Paper, "We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit distinction between ideas and vested interests and show how they feed into each other. In doing so the paper integrates the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the currently more fashionable Stigler-Becker (interests only) approach to political economy. We distinguish between two kinds of ideational politics – the battle among different worldviews on the efficacy of policy (worldview politics) versus the politics of victimhood, pride and identity (identity politics)." Link