Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
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Episode: Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
Pub date: 2026-01-22
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Is the era of manufacturing-led growth officially over? For decades, the path to a stable middle class was paved through industrialization, but today, even manufacturing giants like China are losing millions of factory jobs to automation.
In this episode, Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales sit down with Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of…
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