Turkish economist Dani Rodrik has been awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, as announced by the jury in charge of its concession today.

Considered one of the world's leading experts in political economy, throughout his career he has published more than twenty books and monographs and numerous articles on economic growth and analysis, development and politics, and has lectured at prestigious universities and institutions around the world. the world.

In his book The Paradox of Globalization: Democracy and Future of the World Economy (2011) he formulated one of his most popular theses: that of the trilemma of international politics.

According to this, it is not possible for a country to simultaneously combine its integration into the global economy, democracy and state sovereignty, but, given the situation of the system, it must renounce one of the three options. The trilemma has become, from its formulation, one of the most referenced ideas in the international debate on economic theory.

Born in Istanbul (Turkey) on August 14, 1957, Dani Rodrik obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1979 from Harvard University and, two years later, a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1985.

He was an assistant and associate professor of International Economic Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia, Rafiq Hariri professor of International Economic Policy also at

Harvard and Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Economics at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Sciences.

He currently holds the Ford Foundation Chair in International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Exceptionally, due to the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held by videoconference.

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