CAMBRIDGE – Economists have long argued that productivity is the foundation of prosperity. The only way a country can increase its

CAMBRIDGE – Two competing agendas are currently vying to shape the United States’ domestic and foreign economic policies. One agenda

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – I wrote recently about the possible emergence, from both the left and right of the political spectrum, of a

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – The specter of inflation is once again stalking the world, after a long period of dormancy during

By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE – Development policy has long been divided between two types of approaches. One approach targets poor people

By Dani Rodrik   Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – The international trade regime we now have, expressed in the rules of the World Trade Organization

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – Inequality looms larger on policymakers’ agenda today than it has in a long time. With the political