Lecture: Dani Rodrik on the economics of populism

Prof Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, gave the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture.Populism seems to have come out of nowhere, but economic history and theory provide ample grounds for anticipating that globalisation will produce political backlash. But while the backlash may have been predictable, the specific form it took was less so. Prof Dani Rodrik will distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism - the first predominant in Latin America and the second in Eur...