Jan 18, 2018
This week we are talking about "Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism" by Dani Rodrik, published in the Boston Review. Rodrik is a well-known economist and long-time critic of globalization. While he's no black-flag, brick-throwing anti-capitalist, he was one of the earliest voices questioning the post-1991 free trade orthodoxy. Of course, the story has changed since then, not least because of the 2008 Great Recession. In this essay, Rodrik is keen to disentangle the valuable parts of Economics from the bowdlerized, neoliberal version popular today.