Developing Economics
@CriticalDev
This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold.
Our book review section has been included in the 15 Best Economics Book Blogs 😊 Thanks to everyone who's contributed with book reviews over the years! See our book review section here: developingeconomics.org/category/book-… books.feedspot.com/economics_book…
The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog: developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…
NEW POST: @farwasial unpacks what the rise of private equity for the global South means, especially when it comes to indebtedness, public markets, and the public subsidy function of development finance. Locusts? Vampires? Have a read 👇 developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…
Private Equity in the Global South: Locusts? Vampires? The contagion effect @farwasial developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri… via @CriticalDev
NEW POST: @ChikotiSrihari takes B. R. Ambedkar's 1923 article "The problem of the rupee: its origin and its solution" as an entry point for discussing the evolution of different currency regimes that prevailed during the colonial time period. developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor…
NEW POST: Mehmet Erol critically unpacks and evaluates the recent @ituc global rights index that was released last month and how we should understand the ongoing assaults on labour rights, especially in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. developingeconomics.org/2025/07/15/aut…
“coup against democracy”—an ongoing assault on core labour rights driven by repressive governments, emboldened corporations, and a broader authoritarian and conflict-ridden global capitalism" developingeconomics.org/2025/07/15/aut… @CriticalDev aracılığıyla
More than 100 Years of Ambedkar’s The Problem of the Rupee: Insights, ideas and intellectual rigour still awaiting discovery developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor… via @CriticalDev
I am happy to share that my long-awaited essay on "The problem of the Rupee" (1923) by Ambedkar is finally out on @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor…
NEW POST: @ChikotiSrihari takes B. R. Ambedkar's 1923 article "The problem of the rupee: its origin and its solution" as an entry point for discussing the evolution of different currency regimes that prevailed during the colonial time period. developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor…
My friend @ChikotiSrihari has an excellent piece in @CriticalDev that explores the overlooked brilliance of Ambedkar’s "The Problem of the Rupee" (1923). Please give it a read. developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor…
Based on his BA Thesis on Ambedkar's economic thought @EconInContext @azimpremjiuniv, @ChikotiSrihari writes a blog post in @CriticalDev. @Societies_HET @_ISHET
NEW POST: @ChikotiSrihari takes B. R. Ambedkar's 1923 article "The problem of the rupee: its origin and its solution" as an entry point for discussing the evolution of different currency regimes that prevailed during the colonial time period. developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/mor…
IR professor Ben Selwyn writes about the economist who revealed that free markets are built on state intervention and the suppression of labour, exposing the 'hypocrisy' behind capitalist development.✍️ #AliceAmsden
NEW POST: Ben Selwyn reviews how Alice Amsden unmasked the secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the…
Have you listened to Season 3 yet? Listen in for discussions on alternative 'development' histories, including insights on Latin American liberation theology, Bandung, Tricontinental and Pan-Africanism.#BasileBoulay @EADI @ingridharvold open.spotify.com/show/2MvMLEfhY…
By @sussexuni member Ben Selwyn
NEW POST: Ben Selwyn reviews how Alice Amsden unmasked the secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the…
📄 Dr @davidkjohnson93 published an article titled “Renewing Dependency Theory: The Case of Walter Rodney”, featured in @CriticalDev. 🔗 Read the full blog post to explore his insights: developingeconomics.org/2025/04/28/ren…
The economist who exposed the hypocrisy of the free market developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the… via @CriticalDev
"These ideas fed into her 2007 monograph, Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell. The British Empire was, she quipped, a domain in which the “sun never sets . . . and wages never rise.”"
NEW POST: Ben Selwyn reviews how Alice Amsden unmasked the secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the…
Great piece! I did not know of Alice Amsden's sympathies for Marxism
NEW POST: Ben Selwyn reviews how Alice Amsden unmasked the secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the…
NEW POST: Ben Selwyn reviews how Alice Amsden unmasked the secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare. developingeconomics.org/2025/06/30/the…
