Folks, do you not know who Dani Rodrik is? As I write this, he has 9 followers, compared to over 100 for Robert Reich. Yet it was Rodrik who, in 1997, published "Has Globalization Gone Too Far?" (answer: to an important degree, yes) while everyone's favorite liberal economist today, Paul Krugman, was slagging Reich with his 1996 book "Pop Internationalism." In 1997, people criticizing the "Washington Consensus" were few and far between, and Rodrik was on the cutting edge of this criticism within academia.

No one's 100% right, but when Rodrik talks, I listen. And so should you.