Professor Dani Rodrik
LSE Centennial Professor
Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Economics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Email: drodrik@ias.edu
Personal Website:
https://www.sss.ias.edu/faculty/rodrik
Biography
Dani Rodrik is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Economics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously he was the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has published widely in international economics and globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy.
Professor Rodrik was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council in 2007. He has also received the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, honorary doctorates from the University of Groningen, University of Antwerp, and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), and the Center for Global Development among other research organizations.
Professor Rodrik's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and other academic journals.
His most recent book The Globalization Paradox was published by Norton in 2011 and has been translated into twelve languages. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called “one of the most important economics books of the decade” in Business Week. He is also the author of One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Princeton 2007) and of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (Overseas Development Council, Washington DC, 1999).
Professor Rodrik is a past editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has given, among others, the Colin Clark Lecture of the Australasian Econometric Society (2012), the Arrow Lecture in Ethics and Leadership at Stanford University (2012), the Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography of the Association of American Geographers (2012), the Merih Celasun Memorial Lecture in Ankara (2010), the Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture at the University of the West Indies, Barbados (2009), the Yan Fu Memorial Lecture in Beijing (2006), the WIDER Annual Lecture (2004), the Gaston Eyskens Lectures (2002), the Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro Lecture at the Latin American meeting of the Econometric Society (2001), the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association (1996), and the Raul Prebisch Lecture of UNCTAD (1997).
Professor Rodrik holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College.
Research Interests
Research interests: economic development and growth, globalization, political economy.
Selected Publications
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy, W.W. Norton, New York and London, 2011. (Translated into German, Spanish, Greek, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Serbian, Russian, Arabic, and Dutch)
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth, Princeton University Press, 2007. (Translated into Polish, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish)
Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 1997. (Translated into German, Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish)
“Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (1), February 2013, 165-204.
“The Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008:2.
“Growth Diagnostics” (with R. Hausmann and Andres Velasco), in J. Stiglitz and N. Serra, eds., The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008.
“Growth Strategies,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 1A, North-Holland, 2005.
“Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence,” (with Francisco Rodríguez), Macroeconomics Annual 2000, eds. Ben Bernanke and Kenneth S. Rogoff, MIT Press for NBER, Cambridge, MA, 2001.
“Why Do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?” Journal of Political Economy, 106(5), October 1998.
“Distributive Politics and Economic Growth” (with A. Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1994.