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| Dani Rodrik
April 9, 2021, Opinion: "The US administration's proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package could transform the US and set an important example for other developed countries to follow. But to achieve its potential, the plan must avoid misleading state-versus-market dichotomies and outdated Cold War tropes."
| Dani Rodrik
April 1, 2020, Opinion: "Thoughtful economists have long been concerned by their profession’s hubristic tendencies, collective attachment to questionable models, and lack of openness to new and different voices. Will the combined effect of the global financial crisis, the anti-globalization backlash, and now COVID-19 finally prompt the discipline to demonstrate greater humility and embrace genuine diversity?"…
| Dani Rodrik
March 18, 2021, Video: "The online seminar series aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and instead aims to promote the translation of academic findings into policy. As such, the seminar series provides the opportunity for mutual…
| Dani Rodrik
February 17, 2021, Video: "China and the United States have had frosty diplomatic relations in the last few years that have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this talk, Professor Rodrik analyzes the ongoing tensions between the world’s largest economies, and discusses their significant implications on the future of global economic cooperation. This event is co-sponsored by the Political Science and Economics Departments."
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| Dani Rodrik
January 11, 2021, Opinion: "The new EU-China agreement underscores a fundamental question of the post-pandemic world order: How should strategic and economic relations between major powers with very different institutional and political arrangements be managed? Can democracies remain true to their values while engaging in trade and investment with China?"
| David Deming | Jennifer Hochschild | Nathaniel Hendren | Will Dobbie | Daniel Schneider | Sandra Susan Smith | Danielle Allen | Cornell William Brooks | Dani Rodrik | Jason Furman
January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next generation of work on inequality."
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"This week: 6 Big Ideas. David J. Deming (Harvard Kennedy School) leads the…
| Dani Rodrik
December 8, 2020, Opinion: "Long before the pandemic, the United States had been losing middle-class jobs, owing to automation, deindustrialization, global competition, and the advent of the “gig economy.” Fortunately, if President-elect Joe Biden's administration heeds the evidence about what works, it can mitigate this trend and boost economic recovery."…
| Dani Rodrik
November 6, 2020, Video: "The Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) organizes an annual conference that seeks to promote an exchange between competing theoretical paradigms and covers present debates on macroeconomic theories and issues. A total of nine moderated panel discussions will be held, covering topics ranging from the role of China in the global economy, across issues of economic growth and sustainability, to the…
| Dani Rodrik
October 9, 2020, Opinion: "By promoting behavioral norms that balance market and society, "stakeholder capitalism" is supposed to enable private firms to fill the vacuum created by the decline of traditional forms of regulation by national governments. Ultimately, though, the only viable solution is to make business itself more democratic."…
| Dani Rodrik
September 1, 2020, Video: "In this lecture Dani Rodrik argues that the model of hyperglobalization we have been pursuing is unsustainable and that we have an opportunity to embark on a sounder, healthier globalisation. He outlines his views on what such a globalisation might look like."