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Rohan Sandhu
@rohansandhu.bsky.social
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Co-founder of the Harvard Reimagining the Economy Project | state capacity, economic development, industrial policy, workforce/education | + TV, films, books
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Johanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · 8d
Really interesting case study on transformation support in a 🇩🇪 industrial region. Here's just one feature: “The final design reflects an intentional choice to avoid setting legacy sectors and new industries against one another... 1/
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 8d
How one German state (Saarland) combined institutional vision with an override of fiscal rules to set the stage for the transformation of its economic base away from old, dirty industries. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
Regional Economic Transformation in Germany: The Origins and Evolution of the Saarland Transformation Fund
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · 8d
In a new case study, Sebastian Buck and I unpack the origins & functioning of a €3 billion investment instrument established by the German state of Saarland. Since 2022, the fund has made investments with the twin aims of stabilizing existing industries and enabling long-term transformation⬇️
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 8d
How one German state (Saarland) combined institutional vision with an override of fiscal rules to set the stage for the transformation of its economic base away from old, dirty industries. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
Regional Economic Transformation in Germany: The Origins and Evolution of the Saarland Transformation Fund
www.hks.harvard.edu
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Sep 7
It depends on whether you’re defining capacity at the level of a place or an institution. For the former, I’d think in terms of the range of functions that need to exist to implement federal policies (that’s the lens I’ve used in this piece). See also a recent paper: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
The US Place-Based Policy Supply Chain
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Aug 8
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Aug 8
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
ssir.org
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Aug 8
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
ssir.org
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Aug 8
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
ssir.org
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Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org · Aug 8
"The state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative. It’ll involve building out the capabilities of a range of local public and private institutions, the system hubs and their spokes."

New piece from @rohansandhu.bsky.social
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
ssir.org
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markmuro1.bsky.social @markmuro1.bsky.social · Jul 17
“Mapping the AI economy” My new report w/ @shriyared.bsky.social @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

@shiraovide.bsky.social @profhicks.bsky.social @nickbunker.bsky.social @berkeleyolab.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @kevinroose.com @conorsen.bsky.social
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Jun 27
Absolutely no one:

Me: here are my best 10 movies of the 21st century:

(And 5 more: The Lobster, The Squid and the Whale, No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring)
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Jun 24
Kinda surprised about Tár being so low, tbh. But maybe too recent.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Jun 8
. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: "I worry about a politics that often sees only problems of corporate & oligarchic control. That is a politics with so totalizing a theory of power that it has a lost a clear view of policy... That is a world in which the left will fail, both substantively & politically"
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Jun 8
The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Jun 4
It was very invigorating to be at - and help organize - the 25th anniversary celebrations of the MPA/ID program. Some reflections:
www.linkedin.com/posts/rohans...
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Jacob Greenspon @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social · May 5
Pre-doc opening:

Come work with @harvardrte.bsky.social on research about place-based policies, industrial policy, and local labor markets with Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, and the rest of our great team!

#EconRA #EconSky
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Apr 13
Folks in the Boston area, we (@harvardrte.bsky.social) are hosting a panel discussion tomorrow with regional leaders at the forefront of building tech ecosystems in Colorado and Wyoming, Chicago, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sign up here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/ameri...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Apr 7
The Reimagining the Economy Project is now on Bluesky! Follow our work here ⬇️
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Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School @harvardrte.bsky.social · Apr 7
Reimagining the Economy is an economics-centered program based at the Harvard Kennedy School. We work on local labor market, industrial, and productive development policies in the US & around the world. We combine rigorous research with practitioner insight.
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
Reimagining the Economy
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Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School @harvardrte.bsky.social · Apr 7
Reimagining the Economy is an economics-centered program based at the Harvard Kennedy School. We work on local labor market, industrial, and productive development policies in the US & around the world. We combine rigorous research with practitioner insight.
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
Reimagining the Economy
www.hks.harvard.edu
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David Eaves @eaves.ca · Mar 31
Excited to share v1 of our new paper on the Economics of Digital Public Infrastructure.
This work provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how to measure the ways infrastructure creates value.

Real privilege to work with @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social

t.co/ENfNTMTgdU
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2025/mar/economics-shared-digital-infrastructures
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Mar 27
"The bedrocks of successful climate action are limits on greenhouse gas emissions & cooperation with countries where emissions are growing fastest. A myopic & imperialistic focus on domestic energy production will take the world in the opposite direction"
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Noah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · Mar 27
We wrote this to push back against suggestions that an energy abundance strategy is, in itself, a climate strategy nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-...
Energy Abundance Alone Won't Fix the Climate
Energy abundance isn't a climate strategy—it delays clean energy progress, harms global cooperation, and repeats past policy mistakes.
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Mar 26
From @ifp.bsky.social's Brian Potter: where do Nobel Prize winners come from? | would be interesting to unpack how these trends correlate with public R&D investments, especially during and post WWII in the US www.construction-physics.com/p/who-wins-n...
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Mar 25
[email protected], @raffasadun.bsky.social, et al study 776 P&G employees & find large effects of #AI on collaboration & expertise: individuals w/ AI match the performance of teams without AI, produce more balanced solutions, & report positive emotions on the job papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Feb 25
The "supply chain" framing allows us to unpack the process, the rules, intermediary institutions through which "horizontally-differentiated policy actions" are designed, funded, and implemented within "vertically structured policy domains"
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Feb 25
We discuss supply chains for 6 domains: strategy and planning, business recruitment and retention, small business support, community redevelopment, workforce development, and technological innovation. Across all of these domains, policies are implemented via a range of local intermediaries
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · Mar 21
Need to read, but the idea of place-based policy “supply chains” seems extremely helpful. Especially in a v centralised country like the UK 👇👇👇
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Feb 25
Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, & my chapter for @nber.org's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented in different domains | www.nber.org/papers/w33511
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Rohan Sandhu @rohansandhu.bsky.social · Feb 25
Finally, today's institutions and rules are an accretion of over 150 years of innovations and updates to policies. We trace this history - from the creation of land grant colleges in the 1860s to New Market Tax Credits, Empowerment Zones, Opportunity Zones, & Bidenomics in the last couple of decades
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