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Turkeys Protests Send a Strong Message, But Will Not Bring Democracy

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Tue 4th Jun 13

What follows below is the original, unedited version of my oped in the Financial Times today, for those who cannot access it. (UPDATE: I should add that neither the title of the FT piece nor the subtitle is mine. The subtitle in the print edition "A political
What is wrong (and right) in economics?

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Tue 7th May 13

The World Economics Association recently interviewed me on the state of economics, inquiring about my views on pluralism in the profession. You can find the result on the WEA's newsletter here (the interview starts on page 9). I reproduce it below.1. How would
Experts, knowledge and advocacy

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Thu 25th Apr 13

This is so absolutely brilliant and important: One thing that experts know, and that non-experts do not, is that they know less than non-experts think they do. It comes from Kaushik Basu, currently chief economist at the World Bank and one of the worlds most

The "free trade reduces prices" fallacy, yet again

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Sun 27th Apr 08

This time the culprit is Tyler Cowen. In his column for the New York Times today, Cowen argues that freer trade in food commodities such as rice would boost global supplies and help reduce prices. He is probably right about the first, but not about the
Stolper-Samuelson for the real world

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Mon 16th Jun 08

(Warning: This is a long and wonkish entry, aiming at self-comprehension, and the product of one too many long plane ride.)The Stolper-Samuelson theorem is a remarkable theorem: it says that in a world with two goods and two factors of production, where specialization
American political economics in one picture

posted to Dani Rodrik's weblog on Mon 31st Mar 08

Look at the figure below, and then look at it again, and again, and again. It is the most telling picture about the U.S. political economy I have ever seen. It comes from Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels' new book, soon to be released.

Links 6/5/13

posted to naked capitalism on Wed 5th Jun 13

Scientists tell Australia to save Great Barrier Reef PhysOrg. Ahem, it is also being cooked by ocean acidification, which is most decidedly beyond its control. So I’m not sure the right expression is “save” as opposed to “slow the death
Dani Rodrik on seeing like an economist

posted to Chris Blattman on Fri 10th May 13

There are powerful forces having to do with the sociology of the profession and the socialization process that tend to push economists to think alike. Most economists start graduate school not having spent much time thinking about social problems or having
Noted for May 10, 2013

posted to Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal on Fri 10th May 13

Matthew Yglesias (2005): The Lies, The Lies, Andrew Sullivan's Lies: "As we know, and as this letter writer to his site reminds us, Andrew Sullivan has been a pretty consistent proponent of the view that Paul Krugman is some sort of liar. At issue, are Krugman's