Books by Dani Rodrik
Found 4 books
Dani Rodrik’s Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy is a very good introduction to Rodrik’s basic ideas on trade.
You should all buy and read Dani’s new book, Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science , which I can recommend wholeheartedly and which I wrote a blurb for.
The author is Dani Rodrik and the subtitle is Democracy and the Future of the World Economy and it is due out early next year.
Princeton University Press ran a small ad for my book last Sunday in the New York Times book review. I was curious if it would have any effect on sales, so I ran a little experiment. I checked the book’s sales ranking in amazon.com at periodic intervals starting on Saturday afternoon.
Two books that show economic intellect to advantage are Discover Your Inner Economist , by Tyler Cowen and One Economics, Many Recipes , by Dani Rodrik. Cowen’s book is a set of observations on everyday life, while Rodrik’s book looks at the high-level issue of which economic institutions to recommend for underdeveloped countries. I made the case for Cowen’s book here and the case for Rodrik’s book here .
Don’t forget Dani Rodrik has a new book coming out: One Economics, Many Recipes . I don’t agree with all of it, but it is a valuable correction to the hubris of many other writers.
2. One Economics, Many Recipes , by Dani Rodrik. I agree with much of the substance of this book, namely that we know a lot less about the causes of economic growth than we like to think. I am less happy with the implied rhetorical choices; in particular I wish Rodrik were more consistently agnostic. For instance Rodrik defends industrial policy, but at times this just translates into lower (or no) taxes for export zones. So why frame it as a larger rather than a smaller claim?