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  • Hardcover: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (28 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0691129517
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691129518
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Rodrik packs a great deal into his 260 lucid, cogent pages. Orthodoxies always need serious criticism. Rodrik has supplied it. He has no simple, single recipe for remedying deficient growth--just the eminently sensible advice that there is none--there are many.
(Peter Sinclair Times Higher Education )

Dani Rodrik, a Harvard academic usually associated with the active-government side, has written an intriguing book, One Economics, Many Recipes. He argues that economists who agree who agree in general about where countries should be going can conduct open and honest--and technical rather than ideological--debates about how to get there.
(Alan Beattie Financial Times )

This book is certainly among the best of the many works on development economics recently published. . . . One Economics, Many Recipes is also a model of how applied economics should be done.
(John Kay Prospect )

The Harvard development economist Rodrik here collects a several of his recent papers into a coherent book. . . . In short, [One Economics, Many Recipes] is a critical response to the international 'consensus' approach to economic policymaking, with its implicit assumption that one set of policies is suitable in all, or at least in most, countries. Rodrik has become known for emphasizing the importance of institutions, but he here makes clear that appropriate policies are also important and that effective institutions can take many forms.
(Richard Cooper Foreign Affairs )

Rodrik's book hits many of the right buttons. He has put together a collection of essays of sufficient breadth to engage both the technical observer and the casual reader. His treatment of the subject will come as a bitter pill to both the anti-globalisation movement and the developmentariat, that international coterie of practitioners and commentators working on development issues.
(Mario Pisani New Statesman )

Rodrik is known for rigorous analysis that challenges the conventional wisdom, and this book does not disappoint. Economic growth is a very important goal, Rodrik argues, but the evidence indicates that there is no single recipe for growth.
(M. Veseth Choice )

Rodrik serves as an important, moderating voice in the globalization debate and this book proves no exception.
(Sarah Cleeland Knight Democracy and Society )

In his recent book, One Economics, Many Recipes, Harvard professor of international political economy Dani Rodrik wisely reminds us that there exists no general theory of growth, though he offers pragmatic suggestions in individual cases.
(Carl J. Schramm Claremont Review of Books )

[T]he thoughtful and scholarly elaboration of his pro-industrial policy views in this book should be essential reading for all interested in stimulating growth in these countries.
(Robert E. Baldwin World Trade Review )

Rodrik wins all hearts and minds by a careful consideration of the facts and sheer breadth of coverage. . . . Thus, market mavens, policy pros, global gurus and institutional irredentists can all savor what he says!
(Alice Amsden EH.net )


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Dani Rodrik is a leader in applying rigorous economic analysis and informed common sense to the challenges of economic development. His knowledge, his sense of what we do and do not know, his important pointers to humility, pragmatism, and attention to context--all of these qualities permeate these excellent chapters. A book for academics and practitioners alike.
(A. Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Stanford University )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant study of the policies needed for economic growth, 8 Sep 2009
By William Podmore (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, advises developing countries not to rely on financial markets or the international financial institutions. He argues that the principles of property rights, the rule of law, sound money, and honest public finances need to be put into practice, and the conditions for doing so vary from country to country. There is no single, simple recipe for growth.

He proposes six policies to help implement industrial policy: export subsidies, domestic-content requirements, import-export linkages, import quotas, patent and copyright infringements, and directed credit.

He argues against relying on foreign direct investment, writing, "careful studies have found very little systematic evidence of technological and other externalities from foreign direct investment, some even finding negative spillovers. In these circumstances, subsidizing foreign investors is a silly policy, as it transfers income from poor-country taxpayers to the pockets of shareholders in rich countries, with no compensating benefit."

Rodrik says countries cannot have `globalisation', nation-states and democracy all at once, only any two of the three. So if we want a nation-state and democracy, we must limit our participation in the global economy.

If trade liberalisation brought wealth, Haiti would be the richest country in the world. As Rodrik observes, "no country has developed simply by opening itself up to foreign trade and investment." And, "there is no convincing evidence that trade liberalisation is predictably associated with subsequent economic growth. ... integration with the world economy is an outcome, and not a prerequisite, of a successful growth strategy."

All countries have the right to protect their own institutions and development priorities; none has the right to impose its preferences on others. So Rodrik opposes any country's using the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO to enforce its views. He writes, "Trade rules should seek peaceful coexistence among national practices, not harmonisation."


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