NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

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8. @rohansandhu.bsky.social argues for going local. There's a hidden developmental state in state and city government, and by spreading resources and capacity to them, we guard against seesawing at the federal level. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Use and Expand Subfederal Power

How place-based institutions and regional economic strategies can strengthen U.S. industrial policy beyond Washington and build lasting economic opportunity.

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By enforcing and rewarding compliance, India’s education system produces elites with little patience for questions about, let alone opposition to, the status quo - By @rohansandhu.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/rewarding-co... #India #education @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

Rewarding compliance – What’s wrong with India’s education system?

By enforcing and rewarding compliance, India’s education system produces elites with little patience for questions about, let alone opposition to, the status quo

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The resignation of India's education minister amounts to a powerful symbolic victory for the student protest movement, writes @rohansandhu.bsky.social. But the implications of the protests extend much further. bit.ly/4yKkaTf

India’s Exam Worriers Become Democracy Warriors

Rohan Sandhu says that the recent student protests reflect the collapse of a long-standing socioeconomic compact.

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We’re looking for a Research Communications Manager for the Reimagining the Economy project at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social! Ideal for someone who’s passionate about the diffusion of knowledge across researchers & practitioners. Apply here: careers.harvard.edu/job/research... @drodrik.bsky.social

Research Communications Manager, Reimagining the Economy Project

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Some takeaways from the launch of our new Global Economic Transformation Initiative at the Reimagining the Economy Project, @harvardkennedy.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/pulse/launch... @drodrik.bsky.social

Launching Reimagining the Economy's Global Economic Transformation Initiative

Earlier this week, we launched Reimagining the Economy Project, Harvard Kennedy School's new Global Economic Transformation Initiative, as a part of Harvard Center for International Development's annu...

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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.

Folks in the Boston area: I’m looking forward to being in conversation with @greenwell.bsky.social this week on *Bad Company* — one of my favorite recent books and exceptional narrative non-fiction. Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/priva...

New from @drodrik.bsky.social, Gordon Hanson, and myself: "While global cooperation and national resource mobilization will be necessary to address the challenges we now face, it is local action that offers the most promising path forward." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

The Global Economic Transformation Will Be Local

Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik and Rohan Sandhu observe that the types of challenges that developed and developing economies face are converging.

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Come work with us on the Reimagining the Economy team at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ⬇️

Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a project manager for our new Global Economic Transformation initiative at Harvard. Please spread the word. Details here. careers.harvard.edu/job/project-...

One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction. Here are some of the books that resonated most and that I’m thinking about as the year ends www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-...

Books of 2025

One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction.

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One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction. Here are some of the books that resonated most and that I’m thinking about as the year ends www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-...

Books of 2025

One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction.

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Excited to share *The Economy in Place* — a new data viz platform tracking local economic conditions and place-based policies U.S. commuting zones, with dashboards, place profiles, a blog, and research bibliography. economyinplace.com

Check out our new data visualization platform to explore local economic conditions and policies targeting place in the US: "The Economy in Place." economyinplace.com

Before the Booker Prize gets announced today, here’s my ranking of the shortlisted novels: 1. Flesh 2. Audition 3. The Rest of Our Lives 4. Flashlight 5. The Land in Winter 6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (But #6 is probably going to win)

Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...

Currently reading @drodrik.bsky.social’s new book, releasing in a few weeks. Join us for a launch discussion with Dani Rodrik, @chatibbasri.bsky.social, Rebecca Henderson, & @johncassidysays.bsky.social, on October 29, at Harvard Kennedy School. Register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/share...

Really interesting case study on transformation support in a 🇩🇪 industrial region. Here's just one feature: “The final design reflects an intentional choice to avoid setting legacy sectors and new industries against one another... 1/

Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How one German state (Saarland) combined institutional vision with an override of fiscal rules to set the stage for the transformation of its economic base away from old, dirty industries. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...

In a new case study, Sebastian Buck and I unpack the origins & functioning of a €3 billion investment instrument established by the German state of Saarland. Since 2022, the fund has made investments with the twin aims of stabilizing existing industries and enabling long-term transformation⬇️

Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How one German state (Saarland) combined institutional vision with an override of fiscal rules to set the stage for the transformation of its economic base away from old, dirty industries. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...

An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)

Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.

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"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...

An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)

Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.

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@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...

An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)

Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.

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"The state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative. It’ll involve building out the capabilities of a range of local public and private institutions, the system hubs and their spokes." New piece from @rohansandhu.bsky.social

An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)

Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.

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“Mapping the AI economy” My new report w/ @shriyared.bsky.social @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/map... @shiraovide.bsky.social @profhicks.bsky.social @nickbunker.bsky.social @berkeleyolab.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @kevinroose.com @conorsen.bsky.social

Absolutely no one: Me: here are my best 10 movies of the 21st century: (And 5 more: The Lobster, The Squid and the Whale, No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring)

Kyle Buchanan@kylebuchanan.bsky.social · last yr.

Tomorrow, the top 20 films will be revealed. Any guesses for the top five?

. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: "I worry about a politics that often sees only problems of corporate & oligarchic control. That is a politics with so totalizing a theory of power that it has a lost a clear view of policy... That is a world in which the left will fail, both substantively & politically"

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · last yr.

The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

It was very invigorating to be at - and help organize - the 25th anniversary celebrations of the MPA/ID program. Some reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/rohans...

#globaldevelopment #mpaid | Rohan Sandhu

At a moment when words such as international, development, and aid are under siege, I was very energized by the celebration of 25 years of Harvard Kennedy School's MPA/ID program, which reunited n...

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Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · last yr.

In this tough moment, something to remind ourselves of the contribution foreign students make to Harvard -- scenes from the 25th anniversary of the MPA/ID program (c. 85% foreign students), with Jeremy Weinstein, Eliana La Ferrara, Lant Pritchett, me, and others www.youtube.com/live/toOv_by...

Pre-doc opening: Come work with @harvardrte.bsky.social on research about place-based policies, industrial policy, and local labor markets with Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, and the rest of our great team! #EconRA #EconSky

Folks in the Boston area, we (@harvardrte.bsky.social) are hosting a panel discussion tomorrow with regional leaders at the forefront of building tech ecosystems in Colorado and Wyoming, Chicago, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sign up here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/ameri...

The Reimagining the Economy Project is now on Bluesky! Follow our work here ⬇️

Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School@harvardrte.bsky.social · last yr.

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. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...