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Dani Rodrik's weblog: More on distinguishing ideas and interests -- an exchange with Peter Hall
My recent post on ideas versus interests elicited some comments from Peter Hall, my Harvard colleague who has done probably more thinking on this issue than any other scholar I know. With his permission, I am attaching these comments below,...
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Announcing the US-China Trade Policy Working Group
Concerned about where the US-China trade relationship is going, we recently formed a “US-China Trade Policy Working Group.” Yang Yao, Jeff Lehman and I are co-conveners. Other members are Meredith Crowley, Robert Howse, Jiandong Ju, Feng Lu, Justin Yifu Lin,...
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Economists' statement in support of Atif Mian
It is with dismay that I learned recently that Princeton's Atif Mian, one of the greatest scholars on finance and macroeconomics I know, was disinvited from Pakistan's Economic Advisory Council because of his religious beliefs. See here and here for...
Dani Rodrik's weblog: My preface to Santiago Levy's Book: Under-Rewarded Efforts -- The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico
A few years ago as I was finishing up my book Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Norton 2015), I realized that the manuscript contained a serious omission. I had written at length about how and...
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)
We launched today a new initiative for academic economists that we hope will make the discipline of Economics more relevant to today’s pressing policy problems. The initiative consists of a network called Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) with an initial...