Dani Rodrik

Biography

Rodrik is descended from a family of Sephardic Jews.

After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, he obtained an A.B. degree (summa cum laude) in Government and Economics from Harvard College in 1979. He then earned an M.P.A. degree (with distinction) from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1981 and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton University in 1985, with the thesis titled Studies on the Welfare Theory of Trade and Exchange-rate Policy.

He had also been writing for the now defunct Turkish daily Radikal 2009–2016.

He joined the newly created World Economics Association as a member of the executive committee in 2011.

He is married to Pınar Doğan, a lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the daughter of Turkish retired General Çetin Doğan.

As a scholar, he is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002 from the Global Development and Environment Institute.

On 8 November 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

On 21 January 2020, Pope Francis named him a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Work

His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called "one of the most important economics books of the decade" in Bloomberg Businessweek.

In his article, he focused on three tensions between the global market and social stability. Pointing out that the so-called "globalization" has a dilemma of promoting international equality while exposing fault lines between the nation states with the skills and capitals to succeed in global markets and those without that advantage, he sees the free market system as a threat to social stability and deeply domestic norms. In 2000, Rodrick coined the political trilemma of the world economy.

Dani Rodrik is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 1998. He also founded Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) with Suresh Naidu, Gabriel Zucman, and 11 additional founding members in February 2019.

Selected publications

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References

References

1. (October 2015). "A Conversation with Dani Rodrik". Medium.com.
2. (30 January 2007). "Economist Wants Business and Social Aims to Be in Sync (Published 2007)". The New York Times.
3. [http://www.cosgel.uconn.edu/Publications/Turkishtime(5MB).pdf Turkishtime Article (in Turkish)] {{webarchive. link. (2007-07-19)
4. [https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-rodrik/files/dani_rodrik_resume.pdf Curriculum Vitae Dani Rodrik] - website Hardard University
5. "Pinar Dogan".
6. [https://www.eur.nl/en/about-eur/organisation-administration/tradition-and-history/honorary-doctorates Honorary Doctorates] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-10-23 - website of the Erasmus University Rotterdam)
7. [https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/links/professor-dani-rodrik-receive-honorary-doctorate-erasmus-university-rotterdam Professor Dani Rodrik to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam] - website Hardard University
8. (January 21, 2020). "Rinunce e nomine (continuazione), 21.01.2020". Holy See Press Office.
9. Rodrik, Dani. (1999). "The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work". Overseas Development Council.
10. Rodrik, Dani. (2000). "How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?". Journal of Economic Perspectives.
11. "Home".