2002 Leontief Prize

2002 Leontief Prize
Awarded to Alice Amsden and Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has written extensively on the globalization process. His empirical work on the impacts of tariff reductions and financial liberalization on developing country economies revealed a track record of economic achievement that was much more limited than had previously been acknowledged. His recent books include Making Openness Work: The New Global Economy and the Developing Countries, and Has Globalization Gone Too Far?

Alice Amsden, the Barton T. Weller Professor of of Political Economy at MIT, is perhaps best known for her recent work on the role of the state in newly industrializing countries. Her 2001 book, The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies, highlights the importance of an active state in promoting industrialization, a perspective that challenges many of the tenets of mainstream development institutions.