Dani Rodrik on Neoliberalism

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dani Rodrik of Harvard University talks about neoliberalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rodrik argues that a dogmatic embrace of markets has increased inequality and limited who benefits from economic growth. He argues for a more interventionist approach to the economy with the goal of better-paying jobs and more widely shared prosperity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.6	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is August 20th, 2019.
0:35.8	I'm a guest economist and author, Danny Rodrick, Ford Foundation Professor of International
0:40.8	Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School Government.
0:44.5	He first appeared in Econ Talk in 2011 when we talked about globalization.
0:49.8	Our topic for today is a recent piece he wrote for the Boston Review with Sirish Nado
0:54.5	Gabriel Zuckman entitled, Economics After Neoliberalism.
0:58.7	Danny, welcome back to Econ Talk.
1:00.7	Nice to talk to you, Russ.
1:02.2	Thanks for having me.
1:03.6	Let's start off with the definition.
1:05.2	Neoliberalism means different things, I think, to different people.
1:08.4	It's a term that's come into more use recently.
1:12.2	What do you mean by the term?
1:14.2	Let me say first that I am a little bit uneasy using the term neoliberalism.
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