Description: Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center.
Brief description: Dani Rodrik, a prize-winning economist, is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of The Globalization Paradox and Economics Rules.
Review Quotes: Dani Rodrik may be globalization's most prominent--and most thoughtful--gadfly. In The Globalization Paradox he wonders aloud whether extreme globalization undermines democracy--and vice versa. Read it and you'll wonder too.--Alan S. Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors