Dani Rodrik, Social Implications of a Global Economy

Text of Professor Rodrik's Address

DANI RODRIK is the Rafiq Hariri professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), advisory committee member of the Institute for International Economics, senior advisor of the Overseas Development Council and advisory committee member of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran & Turkey. He was previously professor of economics and international affairs at Columbia University, New York. He has been the recipient of an NBER Olin Fellowship, a Hoover Institution National Fellowship and a World Bank McNamara Fellowship. He has given the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association in August 1996 and the Raul Prebisch Lecture of UNCTAD in October 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University and an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College.

Professor Rodrik’s research interests cover international economics, economic development and political economy. He has published widely on issues related to trade policy and economic reform in developing economies. He is the author of "Why Do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?" Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming; "Distributive Politics and Economic Growth" (with A. Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994; and "Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty" (with R. Fernandez), American Economic Review, 1991, among other publications. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called "one of the most important economics books of the decade" in Business Week. He is joint editor of the Journal of Policy Reform and an associate editor of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Review of Economics & Statistics and Economics & Politics. His most recent research is concerned with the consequences of international economic integration, the role of conflict-management institutions in determining economic performance and the political economy of policy reform.

Professor Rodrik was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1957 and is a national of Turkey. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

• Sponsored by The H. Chase Stone Memorial Fund for Lectures. This fund was established through gifts from Bank One (formerly the First National Bank), as well as from family and friends in honor of Chase Stone, former president of the First National Bank of Colorado Springs, a member of the Colorado College Board of Trustees, and chairman of the board for the El Pomar Foundation.