Recommended article: The service sector path to shared prosperity [1]
Dani Rodrik
We must address climate change, inequality, and poverty simultaneously, but prevailing economic approaches are failing; solutions lie in updated, experimental industrial policy focused on green and productive service jobs
From Dani Rodrik:
“We need new ideas to address the three greatest economic challenges of our time: climate change, the erosion of the middle class, and poverty. The first is an existential threat to our physical environment; the second drives polarization and undermines democracy; and the third is a moral scourge for all of us. Yet with authoritarianism and economic nationalism on the rise, there seems to be little reason for optimism on any of these fronts.
“In my new book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, I point out that solutions to these problems already exist in prevailing practices around the world. They often remain below the radar or are disregarded because they depart from conventional approaches.”
1. Source:
www.socialeurope.eu, 9 Dec 2025 https://www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-policy-2-0-the-service-sector-path-to-shared-prosperity
Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government, is president of the International Economic Association and author of Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (Princeton University Press).
