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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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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI, a quick guide on how countries should respond to China's export machine www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
www.project-syndicate.org

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, I am glad you liked it.

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HarvardCID @harvardcid.bsky.social · 1d
Happening tonight at 5pm GMT - CID Director Asim I. Khwaja will deliver the 2025 Iqbal Lecture for the Oxford Pakistan Programme. Tune in live: bit.ly/3K9AbO5

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Michael Thrower Chowdhury @bevansadvocate.bsky.social · 1d
This new @drodrik.bsky.social book is extremely good. Adapting old insights to a changing world, such as the decreasing labour intensity of manufacturing, Rodrik argues forcefully for a sensible approach to global governance and development. Strongly recommend.

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 2d
📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is running 2 open-rank faculty searches in technology & public policy. One position is specifically for scholars using data science to address public problems. Please help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15561
Technology and Public Policy Search (open rank)
Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for two open rank appointments in technology and public policy. We seek applications from scholars whose research and/or practice focuses on the intersectio...
academicpositions.harvard.edu

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 2d
Faculty searches at Harvard Kennedy School in applied microeconomics and in technology and public policy www.hks.harvard.edu/more/about/l...
Faculty Appointments
The Academic Deans' Office recruits new faculty members who have strong teaching and research records and are intellectual leaders in their field.
www.hks.harvard.edu

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Tomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social · 3d
Policymakers must begin by asking why China’s exports are a problem in the first place - By Dani Rodrik
tomorrowsaffairs.com/chinas-expor...
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
#ChinaEconomy #ChinaEV #Export
China’s export machine is a wake-up call for economic policymakers
As China’s trade surplus grows, with its manufacturing exports increasingly dominating global markets, the rest of the world is grappling with how to respond
tomorrowsaffairs.com

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 3d
China’s export machine is a wake-up call for other nations. But it requires targeted and separate responses for national security, innovation, and jobs—objectives that are too often conflated. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
www.project-syndicate.org

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 3d
The way to counter Chinese imports in technologically sophisticated areas is not to impose tariffs. It is to deploy modern industrial policies, @drodrik.bsky.social explains. bit.ly/485ckHf
How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
bit.ly

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d
Wow.

There some big Country Joe McDonald energy going on here.
the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social ✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 5d
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 6d
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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Francesc Trillas Jané @francesctrillas.bsky.social · 8d
@drodrik.bsky.social: “a program that spurs not only jobs, but good jobs”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d
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...
Progressives have echoed the right in calling for a revival of manufacturing. This is a mistake. Automation and global competition have killed manufacturing jobs in virtually all middle-income and advanced economies. Manufacturing's share of employment has broadly continued to fall in the United States despite strident efforts by Presidents Biden and Trump to arrest it. Today roughly one in 12 American workers is employed in manufacturing. Putting up trade barriers against China will not work. China itself has lost millions of manufacturing jobs over the past decade and a half.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 9d
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...
Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
www.nytimes.com

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 9d
Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.
durlauf.bsky.social Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 9d
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...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 9d
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...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 12d
"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

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d
@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

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13d
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

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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 14d
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 · 14d
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

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 14d
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 · 15d
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 · 15d
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
www.nytimes.com

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 15d
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 · 17d
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

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 18d
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 · 18d
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 · 19d
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 · 19d
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.