Turkish economist
Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkisheconomist and Ford Foundation Professor ofInternational Political Economy at theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University . He was formerly theAlbert O. Hirschman Professor of the Social Sciences at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey . He has published widely in the areas ofinternational economics ,economic development , andpolitical 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 includeEconomics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science andThe Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy . He is also joint editor-in-chief of the academic journalGlobal Policy [ 2]
Rodrik is descended from a family ofSephardic Jews .[ 3]
After graduating fromRobert College inIstanbul ,[ 4] A.B. degree (summa cum laude ) in Government and Economics fromHarvard College in 1979. He then earned anM.P.A. degree (with distinction ) fromPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs in 1981 and aPh.D. degree in Economics fromPrinceton University in 1985, with the thesis titledStudies on the Welfare Theory of Trade and Exchange-rate Policy .[ 5]
He had also been writing for the now defunct Turkish dailyRadikal
He joined the newly createdWorld Economics Association as a member of the executive committee in 2011.
He is married to Pınar Doğan, a lecturer in Public Policy at theHarvard Kennedy School .[ 6] Çetin Doğan who was acquitted of an aggravated life imprisonment for his alleged involvement in the allegedSledgehammer coup plan .
As a scholar, he is affiliated with theNational Bureau of Economic Research ,Centre for Economic Policy Research (London),Center for Global Development ,Institute for International Economics , and theCouncil on Foreign Relations , and is co-editor of theReview of Economics and Statistics . He has been the recipient of research grants from theCarnegie Corporation ,Ford Foundation , andRockefeller Foundation . Among other honors, he was presented theLeontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002 from theGlobal Development and Environment Institute .
On 8 November 2019, he received anhonorary doctorate fromErasmus University Rotterdam .[ 7] [ 8]
On 21 January 2020,Pope Francis named him a member of thePontifical Academy of Social Sciences .[ 9]
His 1997 bookHas Globalization Gone Too Far? was called "one of the most important economics books of the decade" inBloomberg Businessweek .
In his article, he focused on three tensions between the global market and social stability. Pointing out that the so-called "globalization" has a dilemma of promoting international equality while exposing fault lines between the nation states with the skills and capitals to succeed in global markets and those without that advantage, he sees the free market system as a threat to social stability and deeply domestic norms.[ 10] political trilemma of the world economy .[ 11]
Dani Rodrik is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 1998. He also founded Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) withSuresh Naidu , Gabriel Zucman, and 11 additional founding members in February 2019.[ 12]
Selected publications [ edit ] Rodrik, Dani (2017).Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane Economy . Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0691177847 Rodrik, Dani (2016). "Premature Deindustrialization".Journal of Economic Growth :1– 33. Rodrik, Dani (2015).Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science . Norton & Company, Inc.ISBN 978-0-393-24641-4 Rodrik, Dani (2013). "Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing".The Quarterly Journal of Economics :165– 204. Rodrik, Dani (2011).The Globalization Paradox ISBN 978-0-393-07161-0 Rodrik, Dani (2007).One Economics, Many Recipes . Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-12951-8 McMillan, Margaret; Horn, Karen; Rodrik, Dani (2004). "When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique".Brookings Trade Forum 2003 :97– 165. Rodrik, Dani, ed. (2003).In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth . Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-09268-3 Rodrik, Dani (2001)."The Global Governance of Trade As If Development Really Mattered" (PDF) .UNDP the original (PDF) on 2019-12-26. Rodrik, Dani (1999).The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work ISBN 978-1-56517-027-8 Rodrik, Dani (1997).Has Globalization Gone Too Far? ISBN 978-0-88132-241-5
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