Grateful to UNAM, Mexico, for the honorary doctorate they bestowed on me yesterday, along with 13 others. What an impressive ceremony!
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Grateful to UNAM, Mexico, for the honorary doctorate they bestowed on me yesterday, along with 13 others. What an impressive ceremony!
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@drodrik.bsky.social: “a program that spurs not only jobs, but good jobs”
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@drodrik.bsky.social: “a program that spurs not only jobs, but good jobs”
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Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Smart, nuanced piece by @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @bharatramamurti.bsky.social that centers the essential trade-offs of price controls in this affordability moment (rather than assumes them away in either direction), as well as the politics of tackling them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Smart, nuanced piece by @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @bharatramamurti.bsky.social that centers the essential trade-offs of price controls in this affordability moment (rather than assumes them away in either direction), as well as the politics of tackling them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.
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"The European car industry’s response to the EV challenge is a metaphor for the EU’s approach to geopolitical challenges. It’s capable of building a highly complex well-engineered system which makes continual marginal improvements. But faced with rapid systemic change, it has great difficulty."
Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout
Brussels is struggling to adapt to a conflict-ridden world trading system
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"The European car industry’s response to the EV challenge is a metaphor for the EU’s approach to geopolitical challenges. It’s capable of building a highly complex well-engineered system which makes continual marginal improvements. But faced with rapid systemic change, it has great difficulty."
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@drodrik.bsky.social, author of Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, writes an excellent op-ed about jobs for @nytimes.com:
Opinion | What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?
It starts with abandoning the fetish over manufacturing.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@drodrik.bsky.social, author of Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, writes an excellent op-ed about jobs for @nytimes.com:
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A Turkish prosecutor has called for the jailed mayor of Istanbul to be sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison, accusing him of running a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated. nyti.ms/4hZTfuS
Turkey Seeks Jail Sentence of Over 2,000 Years for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
Prosecutors accused Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, of leading a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A Turkish prosecutor has called for the jailed mayor of Istanbul to be sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison, accusing him of running a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated. nyti.ms/4hZTfuS
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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
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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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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.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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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...
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
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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...
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.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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...
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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...
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...
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
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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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
Listen → bit.ly/43Qi8mz
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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
Listen → bit.ly/43Qi8mz
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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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...
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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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
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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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...
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...
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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...
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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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
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
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
www.thewagestandard.com
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
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...
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''[...] 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
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
''[...] 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,[...]''
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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."
"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."
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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."
"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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"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...
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
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"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...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...