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Published · transcript-backedDani Rodrik: belief
1 Oct 2015 Conversations with Tyler Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best
“I think that in a thriving European Union, hopefully, if we get there, that basically a lot of regions can do a lot more things than they can do on their own.”
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- Dani Rodrik
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- 1 Oct 2015
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…And why? Again, my Catalonian friends are going to hate me for this, but when I ask what is it that they want to get out of independence, it seems that basically it’s just very much a sense of having been treated very badly by Madrid. It’s almost like a very sort of 19th century sense of nationalism that is driving it. I sort of think that we should be beyond that. I think that in a thriving European Union, hopefully, if we get there, that basically a lot of regions can do a lot more things than they can do on their own. I think the right evolution of political authority is up for grabs. Breaking up Spain I don’t think is going to really help that bigger goal of having a politically richer and deeply democratic Europe. I don’t see what the upside really is except for this deep sense of 19th century ressentiment. What’s a country right now investors are underrating and a country they’re overrating in today’s world, given your understanding.…
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