Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik
Rodrik
Born	(1957-08-14) August 14, 1957 (age 66) Istanbul, Turkey
Citizenship	Turkish
Academic career
Institution	Institute for Advanced Study
Field	International economics, economic development, political economy
Alma mater	Robert College Princeton University (PhD, MPA) Harvard University (AB)
Doctoral advisor	Avinash Dixit[1]
Awards	Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought (2002)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. The question of what constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are more successful than others at adopting it is at the center of his research. His works include Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science and The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. He is also joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Global Policy.^[2]