Dani Rodrik

The World Needs Europe to Get Its Act Together – Fast Dani Rodrik argues that an attractive alternative to the US and Chinese models has become more important than ever.

For those who care about democracy, human rights, and social justice, a viable alternative to the US and Chinese models has become more important than ever, argues @drodrik.bsky.social. bit.ly/4ky6q7v

Stefanie Stantcheva is EfIP's (@econfip.bsky.social) guest this week

The World Needs Europe to Get Its Act Together – Fast Dani Rodrik argues that an attractive alternative to the US and Chinese models has become more important than ever.

My quick take on what Europe needs to do to provide the leadership the world needs from it. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

Europe is not as weak as it acts A new vision of EU integration is slowly but surely taking shape

Martin Sandbu is right. But to make progress, EU has to invert its founding logic. It must prioritize unity in national defense and geopolitics while encouraging countries to experiment freely in economics (on their own or in groups of their choice) www.ft.com/content/52d2...

Hope you like it.

Welcome to Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · 01/14/2026 · 42m

Interested in a new vision for economics that puts inclusive prosperity front and center? Start with this podcast episode featuring Dani Rodrik (Harvard) and Suresh Naidu (Columbia) explaining the origins and aspirations of Economics for Inclusive Prosperity. #EfIP podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World Dani Rodrik of Harvard University will present his new book, "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global…

On Feb 17, our @inetoxford.bsky.social team will launch the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, an online seminar series that invites discussion on inequality and public policy. Our first speaker: @drodrik.bsky.social presents his new book. Details & registration: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/share...

Distribution matters: Why record inequality is a big macroeconomic problem Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · 01/28/2026 · 48m

When Dani Rodrik was a guest on my old podcast (PolicyCast), he said "neoliberalism is just bad economics." I got to circle back to that in depth with Princeton U economist Atif Mian in the latest episode of Economics for Inclusive Prosperity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Distribution matters: Why record inequality is a big macroeconomic problem Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · 01/28/2026 · 48m

Episode 2 of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast with Princeton University economist Atif Mian is live! Mian says record inequality is pushing US and world economies dangerously out of balance. "Distribution really matters," he says. Listen now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Economic Policy Agendas to Rebuild America, with Dani Rodrik (Harvard), Michael Reich (Berkeley), Jennifer Harris (Hewlett), and Paul Pierson (berkeley. Sponsored by IRLE and BESI

Join us on Feb 11:

@drodrik.bsky.social, Michael Reich, Jennifer Harris, & Paul Pierson @besiberkeley.bsky.social discuss the unraveling of neoliberal economic policy, emerging agendas to address Americans’ unmet needs, and the politics that could make them real.

irle.berkeley.edu/events/econo...

Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik | Capitalisn't Is the era of manufacturing-led growth officially over? For decades, the path to a stable middle class was paved through industrialization, but today, even manufacturing giants like China are losing m...

I talk to Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales at UChicago's Stigler Center on how to build a middle class that will have to be necessarily anchored in services instead of manufacturing. capitalisnt.com/episodes/can...

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos is a must-read. Nice illustration of Balance of Threat theory—he’s saying medium powers must band together to deal with the threat of a rogue US. He’s right: it’s just more evidence of #Trump’s grand-strategic incompetence. globalnews.ca/news/1162087....

Great to hear @drodrik.bsky.social speak at #LSEevents this evening on “shared prosperity in a fractured world”. Lots to ponder on raising living standards, tackling climate change and relieving global poverty. Much rests on an industrial policy for services NOT manufacturing.

Welcome to Economics for Inclusive Prosperity | Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Neoliberalism and economic nationalism are the two dominant meta-models for the global economy today. Proponents call them pathways to prosperity, but both have been blamed for exacerbating ongoing cl...

Listen to the inaugural episode of the @econfip.bsky.social podcast featuring @harvardkennedy.bsky.social and @harvardrte.bsky.social's @drodrik.bsky.social with @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Suresh Naidu, released today: inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/wel...

A Post Neoliberal Consensus . Dani Rodrik recently wrote an article entitled “The Post-Neoliberal Consensus is here”. He argues that it comprises th...

New post: A Post Neoliberal Consensus
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-po...
Dani Rodrik, Tim Besley and others argue that there is a now a post neoliberal consenus on economic policy.

Ousting Powell is like invading Greenland: pointless self-harm for the US, unless you consider that Trump's job is to destroy everything that makes America powerful enough to constrain the global warlord ambitions of Putin & Xi.

crush the US$ & US fin services-->crush the power of US sanctions

Thank you Diane, look forward to being there.

This must be the worst ManUtd team ever -- or at least since I began watching them.

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik

Next week, 14 Jan at 6:30pm GMT, the London School of Economics and Political Science welcomes @drodrik.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, and his bold approach to addressing today's most daunting issues.

Register for this hybrid event: buff.ly/IOPuw2c

Argentina repays US financial lifeline as Milei emerges from market crisis Buenos Aires hands back $2.5bn it drew under swap line ahead of pivotal election in October

Argentina pays US swap back, but apparently no-one knows where the country obtained the dollars www.ft.com/content/b721...

Overcapacity Is China’s Biggest AI Advantage Angela Huyue Zhang explains why technological dominance hinges less on models and chips than on economy-wide dissemination.

It's not innovation per se (on which the US is very good), but its dissemination through the economy and society that determines the success of nations. Europe take note. A good essay by Angela Zhang on the Chinese angle on this. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

Gets it right.

The Global Economic Transformation Will Be Local Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik and Rohan Sandhu observe that the types of challenges that developed and developing economies face are converging.

New from @drodrik.bsky.social, Gordon Hanson, and myself: "While global cooperation and national resource mobilization will be necessary to address the challenges we now face, it is local action that offers the most promising path forward."

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

very cool job opp!

Come work with us on the Reimagining the Economy team at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ⬇️

Project Manager, Reimagining the Economy

We are looking for a project manager for our new Global Economic Transformation initiative at Harvard. Please spread the word. Details here. careers.harvard.edu/job/project-...

Leaders at War by Elizabeth N. Saunders | Paperback | Cornell University Press Examining the the role played by the threat perceptions of heads of state in national foreign and military policies.

In my first book, I distinguished btwn non-transformative interventions (removing the leader, not the regime) & transformative interventions that tries to change domestic institutions. Both are hard and have long-term negative consequences. 9/ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

The global share of employment in agriculture had been falling steadily for decades.

But this movement out of agriculture seems to have paused, or even reversed, in low-income countries over the past five years.

Ishan Nath explores in our first article of 2026 ⤵️

International law is not about rewarding virtue or punishing vice.
It exists to restrain power and protect the weak from the strong.
When force replaces rules, sovereignty and legitimacy erode.
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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World by Dani Rodrik: Health plan for a fractured world Ireland is a poster child for the very economic model Rodrik argues has run its course

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World by Dani Rodrik: Health plan for a fractured world