The most striking bits of the Shadow Docket docs:
Lots of hand wringing over costs to power plants, not even a mention of the benefits of cutting CO₂ pollution.
Yes, the 5:4 SCOTUS majority doing the fossil industry's bidding, and not even trying to hide it
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Very informative (and inspiring) meeting at Harvard with WTO's amazing leader Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The greatest threat from AI is not that it will displace human work but that it will displace human thought. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
As a Red Sox fan disturbed by a disappointing opening to the season, I am hoping JD Vance will visit Yankee Stadium and express his support for them.
Liberal democracy not dead yet. Next - Netanyahu.
Orban was neither the earliest to take office nor the longest to govern of the new breed of democratically elected autocrats, but ruling as he did in the heart of Europe, he always seemed to pose a greater threat to liberal democracy. A good day.
Now Tisza projected at 138 seats against 54 of Orban’s Fidesz. If these numbers are confirmed, this is a larger victory than Orbàn’s 2010 landslide, which allowed him to change the 🇭🇺Constitution and start backsliding towards an illiberal democracy. A historic day.
Close to home, I look at the Belfer Center's homepage and there is nothing on it. Nothing. How can this not be front and center of your attention if you are a foreign policy expert? One bright spot: my colleague Mathias Risse's column elsewhere: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
I find amazing the deafening silence from US universities on Trump's explicit threats to commit war crimes. It is astounding how he has managed to silence them/us. Is this what we agreed to when we bought into institutional neutrality?
Manufacturing will not help rebuild the middle class. If we act, services just might. inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/man...
Harvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik was ahead of the curve predicting the end of neoliberal globalization. Now he's defying conventional wisdom again, saying the service sector—not manufacturing—is the most promising source of good jobs in the future.
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Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thank you for the very thoughtful review. The main message of the book, as you suggest, is directional. I hope, as you also suggest, others will help fill in the missing/fuzzy parts of the agenda.
This is my kind of Chicago economist. Roger Myerson rules.
There is still time to register for the International Economic Association's World Congress in Belgrade on June 22-26, 2026. See plenary speakers and panels here ieawc2026.org
Many thanks to @drodrik.bsky.social for joining me on the @cunyslu.bsky.social podcast Reinventing Solidarity to talk about his new book and how to deal with climate change, global poverty, and creating good jobs for workers in a services-based economy.
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It was a pleasure.
Delighted to announce our new Global Transformation Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, with three panels of academics and practitioners on May 4th www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
Osman Kavala has been in jail in Turkey for more than 8 years, despite two binding ECHR decisions requiring his release. Worth watching this webcast of ECHR hearing on the case. Government's ludicrous case is expertly dismantled by Kavala's lawyers. vodmanager.coe.int/cedh/webcast...
120 Harvard Jewish Affiliates Condemn Justice Department Antisemitism Lawsuit www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
No traffic lights works better than one might think youtube.com/shorts/UHbEU...
Policymakers need not make a stark choice between an economy that serves consumers and one that serves workers. Dani Rodrik (@drodrik.bsky.social) shows how policies that favor the latter can serve the former.
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Dani Rodrik explains why – and how – policymakers should seek to reconcile competing perspectives on what an economy is for.
Economics for Inclusive Prosperity host Ralph Ranalli talks with Luigi Zingales podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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You can also read Professor Erbil's policy brief on this topic: econfip.org/policy-brief...
We want to hear your questions! If you teach economics now or you are a grad student who will someday, what would you like to know about teaching the fundamentals of economic inequality?
Later this week, we'll ask Professor Can Erbil these questions and share his answers with everyone.
A new Economics for Inclusive Prosperity policy brief on basic income and job guarantees, by Max Kasy and Lukas Lehner econfip.org/policy-brief...
Call for rapporteurs at the Adam Smith conference in Glasgow in October www.gla.ac.uk/explore/adam...
I am in conversation (and occasional disagreement) with my colleagues Gita Gopinath and Carmen Reinhart in this panel discussion Harvard put together, moderated by Ralph Ranalli www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2k...
Fragmentation has costs. So does policy uniformity when there is uncertainty and underlying circumstances differ. Experimentation gets you more customized policy and policy innovation that can offset costs of fragmentation.