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Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

Aigner, Ernest, Jacob Greenspan, and Dani Rodrik. "The global distribution of authorship in economics journals." World Development 189 (May 2025): 106926.
Rodrik, Dani and Rohan Sandhu. "Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Economies." July 2024.
Rodrik, Dani, and Rohan Sandhu. "Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Countries." Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Reimagining the Economy Policy Paper, May 2024.
Rodrik, Dani. "Addressing Challenges of a New Era: Against Rule-of-Thumb Economics." Finance & Development. March 2024.
Rodrik, Dani. Comment on "Presidential Address: Demand-Side Constraints in Development: The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality", by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Tristan Reed. Econometrica, 91.6, November 2023: 1959-1962.
Juhász, Réka, Nathan J. Lane, and Dani Rodrik. "The New Economics of Industrial Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-022, August 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "Productivism and new industrial policies: learning from the past, preparing for the future." Sparking Europe's New Industrial Revolution. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers. Bruegel, 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "On Productivism." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-012, March 2023.
Baqir, Reza, Ischac Diwan, and Dani Rodrik. "A framework to evaluate economic adjustment-cum-debt restructuring packages." Finance for Development Lab Working Paper Series, January 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "Technology, Globalisation and A Need for A New Model of Development (Mahboob ul Haq Lecture: Key Takeaways)." The Pakistan Development Review 61.1 (December 2022): 118-120.
Ing, Lili Yan, and Dani Rodrik, eds. New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing. ERIA, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies." An Inclusive Future? Technology, New Dynamics, And Policy Challenges. Ed. Zia Qureshi. Brookings Institute, May 2022, 65-82.
Ash, Elliott, Sharun W. Mukand, and Dani Rodrik. "Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-032, November 2021.
Rodrik, Dani. "A Primer on Trade and Inequality." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-031, November 2021.
Greenspon, Jacob, and Dani Rodrik. "A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals." NBER Working Paper Series, October 2021.
Diao, Xinshen, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, and Dani Rodrik. "Africa’s Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-018, July 2021.
Rodrik, Dani, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "A Policy Matrix for Inclusive Prosperity." Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, April 2021.
Blanchard, Olivier, and Dani Rodrik, eds. Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role. MIT Press, 2021.
Di Tella, Rafael, and Dani Rodrik. "Labour Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys." The Economic Journal 130.628 (May 2020): 1008-1030.
Naidu, Suresh, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman. "Economics after Neoliberalism: Introducing the EfIP Project." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 366-371.
Rodrik, Dani. "Putting Global Governance in its Place." The World Bank Research Observer 35.1 (February 2020): 1-18.
Rodrik, Dani, and Charles Sabel. "Building a Good Jobs Economy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-001, January 2020.
Mukand, Sharun W., and Dani Rodrik. "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy." The Economic Journal 130.627 (January 2020): 765-792.
Aiginger, Karl, and Dani Rodrik. "Rebirth of Industrial Policy and An Agenda for the 21st Century." Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade (January 2020): 1-19.
Rodrik, Dani. "Putting Global Governance in its Place." August 2019.
Di Tella, Rafael, and Dani Rodrik. "Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys." March 2019.
Naidu, Suresh, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman. "Economics After Neoliberalism." Boston Review, February 15, 2019.
Rodrik, Dani. "Trade Strategy, Development, and the Future of the Global Trade Regime." Meeting Globalization’s Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All. Ed. Luís A. V. Catão and Maurice Obstfeld. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Rodrik, Dani. "New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies." Pathways for Prosperity Commission, September 2018.
Rodrik, Dani. "Populism and the Economics of Globalization." Journal of International Business Policy 1.1-2 (June 2018): 12-33.
Rodrik, Dani. "Second Thoughts on Economics Rules." Journal of Economic Methodology 25.3 (June 2018): 276-281.
Rodrik, Dani. "Is Populism Necessarily Bad Economics?" AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 196-199.
Rodrik, Dani. "What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 32.2 (Spring 2018): 73-90.
McMillan, Margaret, Dani Rodrik, and Claudia Sepulveda. "Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-024, May 2017.
Rodrik, Dani, and Tilman Altenburg. "Green Industrial Policy: Accelerating Structural Change towards Wealthy Green Economies." UN Environment, 2017.
Diao, Xinshen, Margaret McMillan, and Dani Rodrik. "The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural-Change Perspective." January 2017.
Rodrik, Dani. "An African Growth Miracle?" Journal of African Economies (December 2016): 1-18.
Rodrik, Dani. "The Elusive Promise of Structural Reform: The Trillion-Euro Misunderstanding." Milken Institute Review. 2016.
Rodrik, Dani. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Rodrik, Dani. "When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28.1 (Winter 2014): 189-208.
Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. Oxford, 2014.
Rodrik, Dani. "Green Industrial Policy." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 30.3 (2014): 469-491.
McMillan, Margaret, Dani Rodrik, and Inigo Verduzco-Gallo. "Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa." World Development 63 (2014): 11-32.
Rodrik, Dani. "Global Poverty Amid Global Plenty: Getting Globalization Right." Americas Quarterly. Spring 2012.
Rodrik, Dani. "Comments on “New Structural Economics”." Review of New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin. World Bank Research Observer, 26.2, January 2011: 227-229.
Rodrik, Dani. "[PS] Return of Industrial Policy." Korea Times, April 14, 2010.
Rodrik, Dani, and Mark R. Rosenzweig, eds. Handbook of Development Economics, 5: Pages 4039-5061. North-Holland, 2010.
Rodrik, Dani. The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn? What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small. Ed. William Easterly and Jessica Cohen. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 24-48.