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Dani Rodrik

Mint columnist

Dani Rodrik is a professor of international political economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and the author of ‘Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy’.

ARTICLES BY DANI RODRIK

countries worried about China’s impact on their factories should deploy their own versions of China’s industrial policy. (Bloomberg)

Dani Rodrik: Has China risen on the back of beggar-thy-neighbour policies?

4 min read . 13 Aug 2026

A trade policy based on the optimum-tariff argument amounts to a naked assertion of economic power designed to harm others. (Bloomberg)

Dani Rodrik: The US has brazenly been acting as the world’s robber baron

4 min read . 09 Jul 2026

The expansion of factory employment and an increase in manufacturing productivity used to go hand in hand in early industrializers such as Japan. (Bloomberg)

Dani Rodrik: Why the East Asia model can’t easily be imported by others anymore

5 min read . 20 May 2026

When we allow AI to do the job of thinking for us, we cross an important threshold. (istockphoto)

Dani Rodrik: For AI to work for us, it must not start thinking for us

4 min read . 16 Apr 2026

Jobs provide us with community, dignity and identity. (istockphoto)

Dani Rodrik: Should economic policymakers put consumers or workers first?

4 min read . 16 Mar 2026

Europe's economic machine is faltering and its democracy is under attack from far-right groups. (Reuters / Yves Herman)

Dani Rodrik: A world riven by geopolitics needs Europe to get its act together

4 min read . 18 Feb 2026

Local action offers the most promising path forward. (istockphoto)

Local will go global: Why economic strategies will have to be crafted locally

4 min read . 11 Jan 2026

Significant segments of the left and the right in America have come to agree on the broad outlines of economic policy. (AP)

Dani Rodrik: A post-neoliberal economic consensus has taken shape

4 min read . 22 Dec 2025

Policymakers must begin by asking why China’s exports are a problem in the first place. (AFP)

Dani Rodrik: What’s the ideal policy response to China’s tidal wave of exports?

4 min read . 01 Dec 2025

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Dani Rodrik: The world needs a new policy approach to tackle its big challenges

3 min read . 09 Nov 2025

Unlike their predecessors, Cyril Ramaphosa in South Africa and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil have solid democratic credentials:

Dani Rodrik: The world has suddenly fallen short of role models for democracy

4 min read . 11 Sept 2025

America has held the reins of the world economy for a very long time. (REUTERS)

Dani Rodrik: Where’s the global resistance to an imperialist America?

4 min read . 13 Aug 2025

Narratives can be as important as interest-group politics in gaining popular traction for a party’s agenda. (REUTERS)

Dani Rodrik: How ideology sometimes trumps material interests

4 min read . 14 Jul 2025

The rise of far-right populists in the US and Europe has been linked to the job losses associated with trade shocks, automation and fiscal austerity.

Dani Rodrik: Abundance for consumers could still mean misery for workers

4 min read . 22 Jun 2025

The fundamental difference between the Smithian and mercantilist approaches derives from how consumption and production are treated. (Scottish National Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Dani Rodrik: Mercantilism isn’t always bad but Trump’s trade policy is

4 min read . 12 May 2025

Trump’s assault on America’s democratic institutions has been breathtaking in its speed and brazenness. (AP)

Dani Rodrik: Will America Inc and US academia protest Trump policies?

4 min read . 20 Mar 2025

The sharpest lines of conflict are between economic nationalists and the techno-right. (REUTERS)

Dani Rodrik: Trump’s coalition could collapse under its own contradictions

4 min read . 10 Mar 2025

In the language of game theory, retaliation through import tariffs is not a ‘best response.’

America’s trade partners should resist magnifying the irrationality on display

4 min read . 10 Feb 2025

Even where tariffs boost profits, there is no guarantee this will lead to more investment in new technologies or job creation. (AFP)

Will Trump’s trade tariffs help or harm America?

4 min read . 19 Jan 2025

Beggar-thy-neighbour policies are generally negative-sum for the world overall.

The world needs clarity on beggar-thy-neighbour policies to ease trade tensions

4 min read . 14 Oct 2024