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Dani Rodrik is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. The question of what constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are more successful than others at adopting it is at the center of his research. His works include Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science and The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Global Policy. .. more

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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 5h
If you are around Providence on Friday come listen to @johncassidysays.bsky.social talk his wonderful book Capitalism and Its Critics. Its the one stop shop for anything worth saying about capitalism that anyone useful ever said...well worth the read

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h
In Opinion | The first step toward building a good jobs agenda requires officials thinking about economic development “to get over their manufacturing fetishism,” Dani Rodrik writes.
Opinion | What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?
It starts with abandoning the fetish over manufacturing.
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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 13h
Legit to ask what the Dems' exit strategy would have been if Trump/Rs had doubled down. But folding when your opponent is showing a queen high seems pretty weird.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 16h
Because labor-replacing tech change as in automation isn't the only (or most effective) path for innovation in services--though that's where we may end up if we leave it entirely in firms' hands. Hence the emphasis in the piece and the book on govt programs to stimulate labor-friendly tech change.

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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 16h
A Good Jobs Agenda:
1. start focusing on services, instead of manufacturing, as the main provider of jobs.
2. take aim at technological innovation, deploying government programs to redirect it in a more worker-friendly direction.
Read @drodrik.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | This Is What a Good Job Looks Like
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 17h
I summarize one of the themes of my new book -- on how to rebuild the middle class -- in this NYT guest essay www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | This Is What a Good Job Looks Like
www.nytimes.com

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 3d
Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil theconversation.com/the-unraveli...
The unraveling of workplace protections for delivery drivers: A tale of 2 workplace models
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 4d
Tonight at Harris School of Public Policy: Why Economic Inequalities Endure. For decades, Sam Bowles has challenged how we think about economics, democracy, and inequality. Ahead of his talk, hear him compare capitalism and democracy on The Inequality Podcast.
Listen → bit.ly/43Qi8mz

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 4d
SCOTUS tariff case transcript up!

A lot of the coverage painted the arguments as a clear loss for Trump and a clear win for the plaintiffs.

I think it's not so clear.

Here's a thread with a few of my takeaways.🧵
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 5d
Well, leaves you open to the criticism, eventually deployed, that surely a 1% tariff is less drastic use of power than a complete ban on imports. But of course I hope you are right.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 5d
Listening to some of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, I am struck by the difficulty of making a legal -- as opposed to economic -- argument that Trump's tariffs are inappropriate. The legal case that tariffs can't be delegated en masse because they are revenue raising seems weak to me.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you Michael. Hope it doesn’t disappoint.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6d
In need of a positive vision for the global future?

Me too.

Here is a new and important one, from the great thinker @drodrik.bsky.social. Just got my copy and can’t wait to dig in.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, a new book by @drodrik.bsky.social, is now available.

Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 6d
Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate|Hardcover
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s...
www.barnesandnoble.com

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 6d
If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order.

www.thewagestandard.com
The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube: 9780593471418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...
www.thewagestandard.com

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 7d
"We spend so much time on the global economy and global agreements. But there is so much that can be done internally”--Dani Rodrik, the Harvard economist, talking to me about his new book "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World."

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Can the Global Economy Be Healed?
A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com

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Jan Schneekloth @janschneekloth.bsky.social · 7d
''[...] Rodrik puts forth a [..] shared prosperity that embraces [...] unleashing society’s productive potential. [...] Rodrik focusses on government interventions. [...]he mainly emphasizes the need for governments to help finance[..]education, training, scientific research, infrastructure,[...]''
Can the Global Economy Be Healed?
A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 7d
Europe's lag in tech is also an opportunity to rethink what tech is good for. Martin Sandbu rightly argues for more homegrown digital services to serve both productivity and democracy. www.ft.com/content/01e7...
Don’t let Europe’s deregulatory temptations weaken its democracies
A good tech strategy would aim not just to catch up but to cultivate better alternatives
www.ft.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
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Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7d
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 7d
I talked to @johncassidysays.bsky.social of The New Yorker about my new book www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Can the Global Economy Be Healed?
A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com

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Mark Sandford @marksandford.bsky.social · 7d
Sub-national experimentation hailed by Dani Rodrik:

"in advanced and developing economies alike, there are many subnational experiments in which partnerships between government agencies and the private sector or civic groups are delivering meaningful economic transformations."

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bianet @bianet.org · 9d
🔴 Osman Kavala’nın selamı var

👉 “Hukukî tartışmayı hukuk diliyle sürdürmek, ülkedeki ortak geleceğe yapılacak en doğru katkı; bugün beni serbest bıraksalar Türkiye bir hukuk devletine dönüştü mü diyeceğiz?”

✍️ Günal Kurşun yazdı

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Osman Kavala’nın selamı var
“Hukukî tartışmayı hukuk diliyle sürdürmek, ülkedeki ortak geleceğe yapılacak en doğru katkı; bugün beni serbest bıraksalar Türkiye bir hukuk devletine dönüştü mü diyeceğiz?”
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Chatib Basri @chatibbasri.bsky.social · 9d
Indonesian economy has remarkably well in the past 20yrs. So why are we seeing waves of mass protests over pocket book issues? My article in
@carnegieendowment.org
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Indonesia’s Fragile Middle Class
Indonesia’s strong macroeconomic outlook belies an anxiety among its aspiring middle class, evidenced by recent protests. This paper explores the roots of this paradox and offers policy avenues to imp...
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 11d
Great to know, thank you!

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 11d
My latest www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
Neglected Solutions to Our Biggest Problems
Dani Rodrik argues that we already have the tools we need to address the world's biggest economic challenges.
www.project-syndicate.org

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 11d
A new postdoc position is now available at the Center for European Studies at Harvard for 2026 2027, The Guido Goldman postdoctoral fellowship, named after our center's founder

A great opportunity to work at Harvard for the year. Here is more information:

ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunitie...
Guido Goldman Fellowship
Guido Goldman, co-founding director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is…
ces.fas.harvard.edu

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you for your participation in the panel
and insightful comments.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 12d
This made me think of my philosopher friends. "[T]here are always some men who cling to one or another of the older
views... and they have often simply stayed in the departments of philosophy from which so many of the special sciences have been spawned." From T. Kuhn.