Shared prosperity in a fractured world

Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the trade offs between each of them. Join us for this talk by Dani Rodrik where he will talk about his new book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, in which he shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three objectives.

Dani Rodrik provides a bold new vision of globalisation, one in which we accelerate the green transition to achieve a sustainable planet, shore up the middle class to restore democracy’s foundations, and hasten economic revitalisation in the developing world to put an end to poverty.

Meet our speaker and chair

Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) is an economist whose research revolves around globalisation, economic growth and development, and political economy. His current work focuses on how to create more inclusive economies, in developed and developing societies. Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is co-director of the Reimagining the Economy Program at the Kennedy School and of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity network.

Francesco Caselli is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE. His work includes contributions to the understanding of convergence and cross-country income differentials, and he is the author of the book Technology Differences over Space and Time. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2010, and he is also a fellow of the Econometric Society.

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