Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

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In our last piece, we asked for your stories: experiences and lessons learned from designing, implementing, and being affected by industrial policy in America. We heard from policymakers, bureaucrats, and entrepreneurs. Today we get to share those stories.

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Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team "Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team" is a 16-minute video essay that threads together the big themes of the conference: industrial policy, climate, inequality, state capacity, and the future of globalization. Featuring an all-star cast of thinkers, policymakers, and journalists. Visit the CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://beyond-neoliberalism.org/ - watch highlights and full-length videos of every panel - listen to the conference podcast - see a full archive of photographs Listen to the Conference Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-neoliberalism-the-conference-podcast/id1825070611 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7Gc3JCHtVwCaoMjibrAGxi

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The full #BeyondNeoliberalism experience is now online:
🧠 All-star speakers
🔥 A video essay tracing the big questions—from climate and inequality to industrial strategy and democyratic renewal:
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🎥 Session videos + podcast recordings
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The latest from community college leaders

Hear about the latest opportunities and challenges that community college leaders are talking about in their own words: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...

Since the COVID pandemic, policymakers have been thinking more and more about supply chains. Our Practitioner in Residence Vishnu Venugopalan along with Chris Miller of AEI, detail the economic and geopolitical implications of Apple's supply chain.

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The Untold, Behind the Scenes Story of the CHIPS and Science Act: Launching the NSF Regional Innovation Engines Program

Daniel Goetzel (RtE Practitioner in Residence and former Program Director, NSF TIPS Directorate) takes us behind the scenes of the CHIPS and Science Act and NSF Regional Engines Program. He draws on his experiences and interviews with people who made it happen.

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We are grateful to our co-organizers at the American Institutes for Research and to the participants.

Wanted: educators with experience preparing workers for good jobs Community colleges embody best practices in workforce development and are showing how to create good jobs for workers who will not get a bachelor’s degree, experts say. At a Harvard Kennedy School eve...

Last week, we hosted community college and workforce development leaders from around the country. We learned what works -- and what doesn't -- in education and collaboration with business, policymakers, and economic development leaders.

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Can the United States revive its manufacturing industry? President Trump signed executive orders aimed at boosting coal production to help revive U.S. manufacturing jobs following international tariffs. NBC News’ Yasmin Vossoughian reports on whether a manu...

RtE co-director Gordon Hanson offers some insight on tariffs and manufacturing. "If we mean sending us back to that world in which manufacturing was a third of US employment, there's no way that could happen."

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The Promise and Perils of OpenAI's Proposed AI Economic Zones: Introduction The big tech companies, and the upstarts like OpenAI, are making massive capital expenditure investments in AI infrastructure in the U.S. And, most of these physical investments are happening outside ...

Daniel Goetzel provides some guidance for policymakers navigating the AI boom.

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Riding the new wave in services, industry If manufacturing operates on efficient outsourcing through GVCs, services are being driven by consolidation through GCCs. India can leverage these shifts

Vishnu Venugopalan describes how India can boost investment and employment in services and industry.
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will only bring more chaos Reckless and indiscriminate tariffs will do nothing to bring back U.S. manufacturing.

@hboushey.bsky.social analyzes Trump's new tariffs. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

RtE's Research Fellows and Practitioners in Residence are weighing in on top economic policy issues.

Reimagining the Economy is an economics-centered program based at the Harvard Kennedy School. We work on local labor market, industrial, and productive development policies in the US & around the world. We combine rigorous research with practitioner insight.
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