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How to Create More Inclusive Economies: An Interview with Dani Rodrik
Author(s) -
Adaman Fikret
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/dech.12649
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , computer science , library science
Dani Rodrik (1957) is a Turkish-American political economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.1 Published widely in the areas of international economics, economic growth and development, and political economy, Rodrik is currently Co-Director of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity Network and, among others, affiliated with International Economic Association, National Bureau of Economic Research and Center for Economic Policy Research. After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, he earned an AB (Summa cum Laude) from Harvard College. He then acquired an MPA in public affairs from Princeton University and a PhD in economics, with a thesis titled ‘Studies on the Welfare Theory of Trade and Exchange-rate Policy’. He has been the recipient of grants from prestigious foundations, such as the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honours, he was presented the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought from the Global Development and Environment Institute, the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council and the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. On 21 January 2020, Pope Francis named him a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. His monthly columns on global affairs are published by Project Syndicate.