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Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science is a concise work of economic methodology by Dani Rodrik, a Harvard political economist known for writing on globalization, development, and policy design. The book examines how economists think, why their models can be powerful, and why those same models can become misleading when treated as universal laws. Rather than presenting a policy manifesto, Rodrik explains economics as a disciplined collection of simplified models, each built around assumptions that illuminate some parts of reality while ignoring others. His central purpose is to defend economics against the charge that it is useless or ideological, while also criticizing economists who overstate the reach of particular models. The book is written for economists, students, policymakers, journalists, and general readers who want to understand how economic claims should be evaluated. Its main contribution is to shift attention from whether economics is right or wrong to when, where, and why specific economic reasoning applies.