Dani Rodrik

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Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish economist and professor at Harvard University . He mainly deals with the mechanisms of economic policy .

Live and act

Rodrik's family is of Sephardic descent. Rodrik has lived in the United States since the 1970s ; he has an American and a Turkish passport . After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul , Rodrik studied political science at Harvard College from 1975 . In 1985 he did his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University , then spent several years at Columbia University .

Since 1996 he has been a professor in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University .

From 2013 to 2015 he was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study . He is also visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Positions

Rodrik is a critic of the overemphasis on free trade policy in the course of economic development. While external orientation is generally associated with higher growth, standard development policy recipes for trade liberalization are no guarantee of success and stand in the way of more effective growth strategies. In his book The Globalization Paradox , he put forward the thesis that free trade, democracy and nation statehood are incompatible - one must decide against one of the three. He advocated restricting free trade because democracy is a higher good and world government is utopian. Rodrik sees globalization as having gone too far in some areas - he calls this “hyper-globalization”, in which, according to DIW President Marcel Fratzscher in a March 2018 article for SPIEGEL Online , “the rules of the world trading system are not only liberalized, but also especially in favor of certain interest groups such as multinational corporations ”.

In 2010, allegedly classified documents surfaced in a Turkish newspaper: detailed plans of a military coup to destabilize and overthrow the government with a series of attacks. The head of the plot was supposed to be retired General Cetin Dogan - Rodrik's father-in-law.

Rodrik is involved in public debates in his home country. He expressed himself several times critically about the Ergenekon trial, in which, among other things, his father-in-law Çetin Doğan was accused. Rodrik and his wife Pinar researched for years from January 2010 to prove Çetin Doğan's innocence. With their research into the dark machinations in the Turkish state apparatus, Rodrik and his wife made many enemies, and Turkish authorities at times investigated them on suspicion of terrorism.

After the attempted coup in Turkey on 15./16. In July 2016, Rodrik blamed the Gülen movement for the attempted coup. He argued that a success of the military plot would have made the prospects for Turkish democracy even worse, but that Turkey had not been a true democracy for a long time. The coup opened the gateway to restrict even more civil rights and abolish the rule of law.

Memberships and offices

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • with Alberto Alesina : Distributive Politics and Economic Growth. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 109, No. 2, 1994, pp. 465-490
  • Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Overseas Development Council, 1999, ISBN 1-56517-027-X
    • Limits of globalization. Economic integration and social disintegration. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2000, ISBN 3-593-36412-3
  • The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Overseas Development Council, 1999, ISBN 1-56517-027-X
  • The Global Governance of Trade As If Development Really Mattered. In: UNDP . 2001 ( online )
  • (Ed.): In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth. Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-09268-0
  • with Margaret McMillan & Karen Horn : When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique. In: Brookings Trade Forum 2003. 2004, pp. 97-165
  • One Economics, Many Recipes. Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-691-12951-7 .
  • with Pınar Doğan: Balyoz; Bir Darbe Kurgusunun Belgeleri Ve Gerçekler. Destek Medya Prodüksiyon, 2010, ISBN 978-605-4455-11-9 .
  • The globalization paradox. WW Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN 978-0-393-07161-0 .
    • The globalization paradox. Democracy and the future of the world economy. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61351-7 .
  • Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. WW Norton & Company, 2015, ISBN 978-0-393-24641-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Economist Wants Business and Social Aims to Be in Sync. NY Times , January 30, 2007, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c welt.de August 1, 2016: "I exclude Turkey from joining the EU"
  3. ↑ http://www.theigc.org/person/dani-rodrik/
  4. ↑ Marcel Fratzscher: Where Germany and China are really too protectionist , SPIEGEL-Online, MARCH 15, 2018
  5. ^ Dani Rodrik: Erdoğan Is Not Turkey's Only Problem. Project Syndicate, September 11, 2013, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  6. ^ Dani Rodrik: Democracy in Turkey. The National Interest , February 11, 2011, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Tina Kaiser: This professor had all of Turkey against him. Die Welt , January 22, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
  8. ↑ welt.de January 22, 2016: This professor had all of Turkey against him
  9. ↑ 2018 Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  10. ^ Nomina di Membro Ordinario della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, January 21, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020 (Italian).
  11. ^ Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ase.tufts.edu, accessed October 12, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Rodrik, Dani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul