Dani Rodrik to Lecture on Economic Convergence
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Developing countries, led by Asia, have grown significantly more rapidly than mature economies over the last two decades, closing the gap between them. This experience is quite anomalous, since historically economic convergence has been the exception rather than the rule.
On Friday, October 25, Dani Rodrik will give his first public lecture as Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science, examining how economic growth shapes global inequality and what determines it in turn, paying particular attention to the role of industrialization in driving patterns of convergence and divergence. Rodrik will conclude by speculating about the future of economic growth. The lecture, “The Past, Present, and Future of Economic Convergence,” will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.
Rodrik is a leading political economist who has transformed the understanding of international development, globalization and economic policy. His work bridges theory and public policy, combining rigorous research with ideas across the field of economics, including the consequences of globalization, the role of national institutions, the challenges of inequality and tensions between the market and the state. His current research centers on the future of economic growth and the roles of ideas in the political economy.
Rodrik received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He served as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1985–92, Professor at Columbia University from 1992–96 and most recently Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard from 1996–2013. He became Albert O. Hirschman Professor at the Institute, succeeding Eric S. Maskin, in July 2013.
Rodrik is one of today’s most published and cited economists. His books Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997), One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007) and The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) have become standard texts in the field. His monthly columns for Project Syndicate appear in publications worldwide.
For further information about the lecture, which is free and open to the public, visit the Institute website, www.ias.edu.
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