Dani Rodrik
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Dani Rodrik (born 1957 in İstanbul), descended from a family of Sephardi Jews who migrated to Turkey from Spain five centuries ago [1], is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central questions on which his research focuses. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations, and is the co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002 from the Global Development and Environment Institute.
After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul [2], he earned an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College. Later on, in Princeton University, he pursued his Ph.D. in economics and earned an MPA from there.
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[edit] Selected publications
- McMillan, Margaret; Horn, Karen; and Rodrik, Dani (2004). "When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique". Brookings Trade Forum 2003: 97–165.
- Rodrik, Dani (ed) (2003). In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09268-0.
- Rodrik, Dani (2001). "The Global Governance of Trade As If Development Really Mattered". UNDP.
- Rodrik, Dani (1999). The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Overseas Development Council. ISBN 1-56517-027-X.
- Rodrik, Dani (1997). Has Globalization Gone Too Far?. Institute for International Economics. ISBN 0-88132-241-5.
[edit] Trivia
- He maintains his Turkish citizenship. [1]
- His wife is Turkish. [1]
- His father made ballpoint pens in Turkey and was successful enough that he could afford to send Dani to Harvard in 1975. Now his older brother is running the business, shifted to selling imported pens. [1]
- He is a tall, thin, soft-spoken man. [1]
