Rohan Sandhu
Co-founder of the Harvard Reimagining the Economy Project | state capacity, economic development, industrial policy, workforce/education | + TV, films, books
- New from @drodrik.bsky.social, Gordon Hanson, and myself: "While global cooperation and national resource mobilization will be necessary to address the challenges we now face, it is local action that offers the most promising path forward." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...
- Come work with us on the Reimagining the Economy team at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ⬇️
- We are looking for a project manager for our new Global Economic Transformation initiative at Harvard. Please spread the word. Details here. careers.harvard.edu/job/project-...
- One of the most solipsistic things I do every year is share my favorite books. And this has been a pretty good reading year, with remarkable fiction and non-fiction. Here are some of the books that resonated most and that I’m thinking about as the year ends www.linkedin.com/pulse/books-...
- Excited to share *The Economy in Place* — a new data viz platform tracking local economic conditions and place-based policies U.S. commuting zones, with dashboards, place profiles, a blog, and research bibliography. economyinplace.com
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- Before the Booker Prize gets announced today, here’s my ranking of the shortlisted novels: 1. Flesh 2. Audition 3. The Rest of Our Lives 4. Flashlight 5. The Land in Winter 6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (But #6 is probably going to win)
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- Currently reading @drodrik.bsky.social’s new book, releasing in a few weeks. Join us for a launch discussion with Dani Rodrik, @chatibbasri.bsky.social, Rebecca Henderson, & @johncassidysays.bsky.social, on October 29, at Harvard Kennedy School. Register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/share...
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- In a new case study, Sebastian Buck and I unpack the origins & functioning of a €3 billion investment instrument established by the German state of Saarland. Since 2022, the fund has made investments with the twin aims of stabilizing existing industries and enabling long-term transformation⬇️
- @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's Abundance has become a Rorschach test among policy analysts w/ much discussion focusing on the impediments that government may have imposed upon itself. But beyond that conversation is a more expansive state capacity project ssir.org/articles/ent...
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- Absolutely no one: Me: here are my best 10 movies of the 21st century: (And 5 more: The Lobster, The Squid and the Whale, No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- . @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: "I worry about a politics that often sees only problems of corporate & oligarchic control. That is a politics with so totalizing a theory of power that it has a lost a clear view of policy... That is a world in which the left will fail, both substantively & politically"
- It was very invigorating to be at - and help organize - the 25th anniversary celebrations of the MPA/ID program. Some reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/rohans...
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- Folks in the Boston area, we (@harvardrte.bsky.social) are hosting a panel discussion tomorrow with regional leaders at the forefront of building tech ecosystems in Colorado and Wyoming, Chicago, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sign up here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/ameri...
- The Reimagining the Economy Project is now on Bluesky! Follow our work here ⬇️
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- "The bedrocks of successful climate action are limits on greenhouse gas emissions & cooperation with countries where emissions are growing fastest. A myopic & imperialistic focus on domestic energy production will take the world in the opposite direction"
- From @ifp.bsky.social's Brian Potter: where do Nobel Prize winners come from? | would be interesting to unpack how these trends correlate with public R&D investments, especially during and post WWII in the US www.construction-physics.com/p/who-wins-n...
- .@emollick.bsky.social, @raffasadun.bsky.social, et al study 776 P&G employees & find large effects of #AI on collaboration & expertise: individuals w/ AI match the performance of teams without AI, produce more balanced solutions, & report positive emotions on the job papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- . @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social's #Abundance is about government *effectiveness* - as opposed to efficiency. It flips the script & frames policy in terms of the outcomes we need to accomplish. As such, it's about *enabling* the state to be more ambitious, not constraining it (1/5)
- Big day for this genre of books in Cambridge — but terrible coordination between bookstores that @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social, and @yappelbaum.bsky.social are all doing book events at the *same time* 😐
- Apropos absolutely nothing, I'm giving up on current political affairs and rewatching all of The West Wing instead. Call me naive, but I need some semblance of idealism in my life.
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- Gordon Hanson, @drodrik.bsky.social, & my chapter for @nber.org's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented in different domains | www.nber.org/papers/w33511
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- Reposted by Rohan SandhuPostdoc opportunity on industrial policies and related topics at the Reimagining the Economy program at Harvard www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...
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- Cambridge, MA just passed one of the most — if not the most — ambitious zoning reforms in the US, legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories! docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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- +1! Welcome to the team, @hboushey.bsky.social!
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- @markmuro1.bsky.social & Tony Pipa take stock of the Biden admin's place-based policies to target economic distress + Biden's final EO on econ policy: "the genie of helping left-behind places with focused, coherent, place-based economic policies is out of the bag—often with bipartisan support."
- Janan Ganesh: "The lesson of the 2024 election for liberals was, or should have been, narrow: stop choosing useless candidates. This has somehow grown into a broader crisis of confidence about whether their underlying assessment of Trump as a menace was ever right." www.ft.com/content/e11b...
- tl;dr | @dkthomp.bsky.social: “I’m not making any plans to give up my nightly glass of wine.”
- @menakadoshi.bsky.social on a new place-based industrial strategy in India, to build 20 new cities: "Three features stand out in India’s $6.59 billion plan to build new industrial cities – they are scattered across the hinterland, mostly small and slow to build" | www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
- @drodrik.bsky.social, with Aigner and Greenspon: Economists from developing countries are less likely to be published in top journals and receive significantly fewer citations than authors in advanced economies (especially the US) | drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...
- Searing piece by @dylanmatt.bsky.social on Biden's economic agenda: "Biden’s domestic record is characterized by a refusal to prioritize, a paralyzing fear of pissing off any Democratic faction that too often wound up winning nothing for any of them." www.vox.com/politics/394...
- Excellent article by: @ahorvath.bsky.social: “As an ethos, measurable impact is the antithesis of active engagement in the disorderliness of politics. It wants the world to operate with the placidity of a silently spinning top. It just needs more spin in the right direction” t.co/qor6pxjQM4
