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| 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."…
| Lawrence H. Summers | Robin Greenwood | Carmen Reinhart | Dani Rodrik | Juliette Kayyem | Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard
April 23, 2020, Video. "On Tuesday April 14th, Harvard Business School hosted the MBA Program’s COVID-19 Symposium. The symposium consisted of a series of fireside chats between HBS faculty and several of Harvard University’s leading thinkers, who help us better understand the challenges that COVID-19 poses to public health, to our economies and globalization, and to the way we live. Speakers included Ashish Jha of the Harvard Chan School of…
| Dani Rodrik
An Industrial Policy for Good Jobs. Dani Rodrik, May 8, 2019, "So-called productive dualism is driving many contemporary ills in developed and developing countries alike: rising inequality and exclusion, loss of trust in governing elites, and growing electoral support for authoritarian populists. But much of the policy discussion today focuses on solutions that miss the true source of the problem."…
| Dani Rodrik
The Good Jobs Challenge. Dani Rodrik, February 7, 2019, Opinion, "Every economy in the world today is divided between an advanced segment, typically globally integrated, employing a minority of the labor force, and a low-productivity segment that absorbs the bulk of the workforce, often at low wages and under poor conditions. How should policymakers address this dualism?"…
| Rafael Di Tella | Dani Rodrik
Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys. Rafael Di Tella, Dani Rodrik, January 16, 2019, Paper, "We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents are given a choice among no government…
| Dani Rodrik
The Left’s Choice. Dani Rodrik, January 8, 2019, Opinion, "In the face of resurgent right-wing populism, the left’s relative weakness partly reflects the decline of unions and organized labor groups, which have historically formed the backbone of leftist and socialist movements. But four decades of ideological abdication has also played an important role."…
| Dani Rodrik
The Elusive Promise of Structural Reform. Dani Rodrik, November 28, 2017, Book Chapter, "This Chapter reconsiders the notion of and rationale for ‘structural reforms.’ Structural reforms are changes in labor and product markets as well as wider institutional changes that aim to increase the efficiency with which labor and capital are allocated in the economy, ensuring that these resources go where their contribution to national income is largest…
| Dani Rodrik
Green Industrial Policy: Accelerating Structural Change towards Wealthy Green Economies. Dani Rodrik, 2017, Paper, "There are two major reasons for governments and societies to accelerate structural change in their economies and proactively shape its direction. First, there is the challenge of creating wealth. Structural change, that is, the reallocation of capital and labour from low- to high-productivity activities, is a key driver of…
| Dani Rodrik
Macron’s Labor Gambit. Dani Rodrik, September 7, 2017, Opinion, "French President Emmanuel Macron’s entourage has been wisely telling anyone who will listen not to expect too much from the proposed new labor code. Indeed, the economics of the reforms suggest that they are unlikely to make a big difference on their own."…