If the human capital and quality of life theories are right, the Midwest would be a half-century into a century-long period ...

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...

Historically all major thinkers about the economy were development economists as they saw the economy going through transformative structural changes and that is what they studied, says Jayati Ghosh, ...

1947 was a year of political ambition, says UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright at the book launch of The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development in posing the question, “Do we have that ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. One of the joys of using Twitter as a self-updating annotated bibliography is that sometimes articles ...

Marx develops his economic theory in Capital in a rather peculiar way. This paper focuses on some of these peculiarities, especially his attempt to base his account of prices and derivative entities ...

Keynes was an influential policy analyst and economist who lived from 1883 to 1946. His seminal work, “The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money,” became a founding force behind modern ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...

Today’s newsletter isn’t about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth in the economics world over the past couple of days. Suffice it to say that I ...

Despite their opposing ideologies, they may well offer valuable insights into the future of country Just a few years ago, China's rise to superpower status seemed inexorable. Today, many independent ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...