# Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate (2025) ![Book cover for Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World by Dani Rodrik](/sites/g/files/omnuum7106/files/2025-08/Shared%20Prosperity%20in%20a%20Fractured%20World.png) [*Princeton University Press*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691268316/shared-prosperity-in-a-fractured-world), November 2025.Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. *Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World* shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three objectives. Dani Rodrik provides a bold new vision of globalization, one in which we accelerate the green transition to achieve a sustainable planet, shore up the middle class to restore democracy’s foundations, and hasten economic revitalization in the developing world to put an end to poverty. The rising tide of authoritarianism has demonstrated our inability to alleviate economic anxieties. Economic nationalism has raised the specter of increased protectionism and deteriorating prospects for economic growth. And automation and other new technologies have undercut the advantages of low-cost, unskilled labor in manufacturing and export-oriented industrialization. Rodrik reveals how we can restore prosperity through new forms of collaborative public-private action—to promote renewables and green industries, middle-class jobs, and enhanced productivity in labor-absorbing services—even in the absence of global cooperation. He explains why this new kind of globalization must also recognize the legitimate desire of governments to pursue their economic, social, and security interests autonomously. Turning conventional economic wisdom on its head, *Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World* builds on practices that work while radically transforming those that don’t, presenting a grounded, clear-eyed approach to tackling the problems that affect us all, at home and around the world. Finalist in Economics for the [Association of American Publishers’ 50th Annual PROSE Awards](https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-and-category-winners-for-50th-annual-prose-awards/). ## Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Globalization and Inclusive Growth Book Presentation at the Harvard Kennedy School, October 29, 2025 ## Advance Praise “Dani Rodrik is not only the leading development economist of his generation, but the most insightful scholar on adapting the global economy to emerging realities and challenges: climate change, dramatic advances in digital technology, economic, political, and social polarization, and rising geopolitical tensions. In *Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World*, this wisdom is on full display as he guides us toward practical and workable pathways and mindsets that meet the challenges of sustainability, restoring democracy, and reducing global poverty.” **—Michael Spence, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and author of** ***The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World*** “A remarkably incisive, original, and compelling analysis of the core economic challenges of our time. Dani Rodrik has not only dared to imagine a future that delivers prosperity, sustainability, and justice across the globe; he’s developed a suite of achievable policies to get us there. A boldly conceived and brilliantly executed piece of work.” **—Gary Gerstle, author of** ***The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era*** “In a world where democracy, economic prosperity, and the climate transition are all under threat, we need to experiment in making them work together. Dani Rodrik’s excellent new book draws on both theory and practical examples to show how second-best decision making can have first-rate results, and how local initiatives can have global consequences.” **—Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies** “The world is faced with multiple crises. Globalization, rapid automation, the oncoming AI revolution, climate change, and the troubles of democracy have all upended aspects of what people used to take for granted. This wonderful book calls us to imagine a better world by tackling all these challenges at the same time and in a synergistic manner. Rodrik’s book is uplifting in its optimism.” **—Daron Acemoglu, winner of the 2024 Novel Prize in Economics and coauthor of** ***Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity*** “Dani Rodrik, a prescient critic of neoliberal globalization, now offers a compelling alternative—less reliant on market faith and more open to public investment, less insistent on global governance and more attentive to national and local circumstances. This book is must-reading for all Democrats and Republicans willing to jettison past pieties for the sake of good jobs, shared prosperity, a workable green transition, and a strong middle class.” **—Michael J. Sandel, author of** ***Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times*** ## Reviews [### Book Review: Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate ](https://www.independent.org/tir/2026-summer/shared-prosperity-in-a-fractured-world/) The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 31, No. 1, Summer 2026 [### Rodrik, D. (2025): Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate ](https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/186960/5/rur_4025_OnlinePDF.pdf) Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning, June 3, 2026 [### Beyond Trade-offs: New Economics for Climate, Jobs, and Development—A Symposium ](https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/7/1/162174/218264/Beyond-Trade-offs-New-Economics-for-Climate-Jobs?guestAccessKey=60973065-0a03-4f07-8cb0-68c5764d5610) University of California, Global Perspectives, May 21, 2026 [### Dani Rodrik on the Post-Neoliberal World ](https://fpif.org/dani-rodrik-on-the-post-neoliberal-world/) Foreign Policy in Focus, May 6, 2026 [### Book Review: Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate ](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/shared-prosperity-fractured-world-new-economics-middle-class-global-poor-and-our-climate) Foreign Affairs, April 21, 2026 [### Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World ](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10220461.2026.2646501) South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 1, April 21, 2026. [### Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate, by Dani Rodrik (Princeton University Press, Princeton, US, 2025), pp. 280 ](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-4932.70046) Wiley Online Library Book Review, April 5, 2026 [### Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate ](https://spe.org.uk/reading-room/book-reviews/shared-prosperity-in-a-fractured-world/) The Society of Professional Economists Book Review, March 25, 2026 [### Economics for the real world — a provocative new playbook, plus India’s growth story ](https://www.ft.com/content/c751c425-3243-468f-8608-43cc1b312e24?syn-25a6b1a6=1) Financial Times, March 23, 2026 [### Book Review: Dani Rodrik, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World ](https://weiterzugehen.net/2025/11/30/book-review-dani-rodrik-shared-prosperity-in-a-fractured-world/) Be Informed, November 30, 2025 [### Always Start with People, Not Technology ](https://anthonypainter.substack.com/p/always-start-with-people-not-technology) The Three Economies, February 19, 2026 [### Can We Repair a Broken Economy Without Manufacturing Jobs? ](https://www.promarket.org/2026/01/30/can-we-repair-a-broken-economy-without-manufacturing-jobs/) ProMarket, January 30, 2026