Rodrik "El Heterodoxo"

El NY Times publicó un interesante artículo sobre Dani Rodrik, profesor de economía política internacional de Harvard, y su particular visión del comercio internacional. Rodrik sostiene dos ideas ligeramente polémicas, al menos en Estados Unidos: 1. El Estado debe intervenir para seleccionar ganadores en determinados sectores; 2. Hay que proteger a los perdedores del libre comercio. Ambas sugerencias parecen de lo más sensibles.

Greg Mankiw levantó la nota y se armó un suculento ping pong en los comentarios de su blog. Una muestra:

Well, I think one will always find the heirs of protected and thus subsidized industries to extoll the virtues of high tariffs, and to declare what a boon they have been for them. Seems that the turkish consumers (mostly poor at that time, I suppose), unable to buy cheap pencils from abroad, paid his Harvard fees; perhaps (to bring in a little bit of polemics into this) with the money they would otherwise have spent on an English language course for their children. To say that this mechanism is fair or good is quite disingenious.