UPDATE: THE DANI RODRICK LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED.

DePaul University’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics’ Abbott Fund lecture series, Alleviating Poverty Through Profits, continues March 6 with a free, public talk by influential international development scholar and author Dani Rodrik.

Rodrik, the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will discuss themes explored in his 2007 book, “One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth,” from 10 a.m. to noon at the DePaul Center, Room 8005, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.

Rodrik is a groundbreaking world trade economist who has “built a reputation among mainstream economists and policy makers for favoring eclectic solutions that mix government and the private sector in pragmatic ways,” according to a New York Times profile of Rodrik published last year. His previous book, “Has Globalization Gone Too Far?,” was hailed “one of the most important economics books of the decade” by BusinessWeek.

His books advocate a flexible approach to globalization that balances free trade with government policies tailored to local economic and political realities. Rich countries “need flexibility to interfere in trade when trade conflicts with deeply held values at home—as, for example, with child labor or health and safety concerns—or severely weakens the bargaining power of workers,” he explained in an op-ed he penned for the Financial Times. “Poor nations need room to engage in exchange rate and industrial policies that will diversify and restructure their economies, without which their ability to benefit from globalization is circumscribed.” “One Economics, Many Recipes” explores these themes by showcasing successful countries that have crafted unique growth strategies.

Rodrik teaches in Harvard’s master of public administration in international development degree program. His recent research is concerned with the determinants of economics growth and the consequences of international economic integration, with special focus on two related questions: what constitutes good economic policy and why are some governments better than others in adopting it.

Published widely, he also edits the Review of Economics and Statistics and is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Literature. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, Center for Global Development, Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Rodrik was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council in 2007. He also has received the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.

Rodrik holds a doctoral degree in economics and a master in public administration from Princeton University, and a bachelor of arts, summa cum laude, from Harvard College.

Launched last spring by DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics with a grant from the Abbott Fund, the lecture series is part of a three-year project undertaken by DePaul to promote business solutions for reducing poverty and increasing health care access worldwide.

For more information about the lecture or series, contact Summer Brown at the IBPE: 312/362-8786 or sbrown15@depaul.edu or visit the IBPE Web site at: http://commerce.depaul.edu/ethics/.

Note to Editors: Journalists interested in covering the lecture should make prior arrangements by contacting Robin Florzak, DePaul Media Relations: 312/362-8593 or rflorzak@depaul.edu.