
This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold.
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New! Tribute to Peruvian Economist Oscar Ugarteche by Isabel Ortiz. Founder of Latin American Economic Observatory (OBELA),@latindadd, author of 28 books "he is every one of the young economists who learned from him to look the system straight in the eye"
developingeconomics.org/2026…
We at Developing Economics are pleased to partner with @DevEconNetwork to publish a series of Blogs on 'Reviving Central Planning a Global South Perspective' featuring Marxist Economists Prabhat Patnaik & C.P Chandrasekhar-moderated by @farwasial. Its time to bring Planning Back!
NEW POST: @drlandislife explains how & why we need to understand the genocide in Palestine as a feminist and reproductive justice issue as the ultimate goal of Israel (w/support from the West) is to render impossible societal reproduction of Palestinians.
developingeconomics.org/2023…
NEW POST: @RedTom90 reviews this exciting new book, which illuminates the 'impotence of capital' to develop productive forces in Latin America due to the appropriation of ground rent, offering distinctive strategic implications for working-class action. developingeconomics.org/2023…
NEW POST: @ClaudiusGrabner & Birte Strunk ask: What is the role of the Global South in degrowth discourse?
Through a systematic review, they find both synergies between degrowth thinking and radical thought in the South as well as potential limitations.
developingeconomics.org/2023…
🎧 Season 2 of the Hierarchies of Development podcast is out!
In the 1st episode we speak to @KPatricio_ (@Law_Leeds) about hierarchies of money & finance, core-periphery dynamics of inflation and more.
Hosted by @BasileBoulay & @ingridharvold
Listen 👇 developingeconomics.org/2023…
Back from break & we have no less than TWO new posts for you!
@TingXu7 explores the co-evolution of diversity in property regimes and how they relate to economic dev, with China as example.
Part 1 looks at horizontal dimensions of property regimes...👇
developingeconomics.org/2022…
Replying to @CriticalDev @Nqojela
🎉Episode 4 is out 🎉
🎧Asanda Benya & @RadleyBen share their research on the political economy of mining & the hierarchies the sector is embedded in, w/ a focus on South Africa & DRC. We discuss history, working conditions, gender, the World Bank & more. eadi.org/news/podcast-hierar…
🎉 The third episode is out! 🎉
🎧 The hosts speak with Intan Suwandi and @Nqojela about how to both conceptualise & challenge GVCs' hierarchical nature, touching on competiton theory, imperialism, and specific examples from South Africa and Indonesia. 👇
eadi.org/news/podcast-hierar…









