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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Work @KingsIntDev , PhD @TheNewSchool . Editor @CriticalDev , co-founder @DivDecEcon , managing @hetecon . Heterodox econ, pol economy, anti-imperialism, finance.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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To build a global & anti-imperialist IPE, a critical recovery of the anti-colonial scholarship that has been marginalized since IPE's inception is necessary. Therefore, @Faobr & I argue in @RIPEJournal that the road to decolonize IPE goes "through Dakar".

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Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory

Whereas the field of International Political Economy (IPE) included a diversity of voices at its outset, histories of the field tend to marginalize certain contributions - particularly those from t...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Economists can learn from anthropologists. I mean it! And not in a "they provide valuable context for our research" kind of way. Anthro can help us understand financial processes & structures of oppression. Anthro can help us theorise. Some resources & anthros to follow👇

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A prize to be expected. Banerjee, Duflo & Kremer rely on key tenets of mainstream Econ. While founded on behavioral econ and assumption that tweaks to individual actions can alleviate global poverty, their work is often wrongly presented as purely empirical, objective & radical.

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Hey friends! @devikadutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @cacrisalves and @SurbhiKesar ). In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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It still blows my mind that the UK school curriculum doesn't systematically cover Britain's colonial and imperial history (!). It's worth revisiting this piece by @MayaGoodfellow .

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Put Britain’s colonial history on the curriculum – then we’ll know who we really are | Maya...

Britain’s past weighs on our present: learning about it would mean a better debate about race and migration, says academic and author Maya Goodfellow

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Our paper on decolonizing economics teaching is finally out! @SurbhiKesar & I surveyed 498 economists to evaluate possibilities and challenges associated with efforts to decolonize economics. As you may imagine, the results are not super encouraging...🧵

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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The mainstream news is not very clear about WHO was being violent at the UCLA protests.... so check this out. Seems police only called on to clear peaceful anti-war encampments, not when there is actual violence against students. Can't use campus safety as excuse anymore.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Is dependency theory relevant today? If yes, what can we learn from it? Why was it dismissed? That line of inquiry I started as an Econ PhD student at @NSSRNews has now culminated in a @DevandChg article! Any feedback is very welcome. Here's a thread 👇

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Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme

This article evaluates the relevance of dependency theory for understanding contemporary development challenges, especially in the light of changes in the global economy over the past 50 years. In...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Erik Reinert and I have a new edited book out on Uneven Economic Development I was inspired by Reinert's book and teaching as an undergrad so is an honor to have worked with him on this ☺️ Pre-order your ebook or hardcopy for your library here:

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Why did Joan Robinson turn to Marx in 1942? Which insights from Marxian economics did she seek to incorporate into her work? How was her encounter with Marx was received by some her of contemporaries? Really exciting new article by @cacrisalves !! 🔥🔥 👇

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Ivanka Trump may be the next @WorldBank President. This is a great time to be teaching Politics of Development! And by chance, next week is the week on global governance 👏. For anyone wanting some background reading on how to understand what's going on, here's a thread. 1/10

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Samir Amin critiqued cultural views of Orientalism and proposed alternative, structural analyses of imperialism, Eurocentrism, uneven development and ideology. What can contemporary development economics and quests for decolonization learn from this?

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If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin | Aeon Essays

If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Rereading Poor Economics and it's even worse than I remember... There's actually a whole section called "Against Political Economy," where they explain that since "good policies" can be carried out in any political context, Political Economy is obsolete!

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Seeking inspiration for my spring term teaching prep on multinational corporations and global value chains 💁‍♀️

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When the world is facing large systemic crises, why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes? I unpack the critiques of the work of Banerjee, Duflo & Kremer and offer some of my own reflections. Thanks @L__Macfarlane for publishing!

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Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize

When the world is facing large systemic crises, why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes?

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

A bit random, but I wrote a book review of @PikettyLeMonde 's new book for @nature . The introduction got me excited about the project's ambition, but the book left me disappointed. Piketty's analysis of both ideology & capital leaves a lot to be desired.

Post-pandemic economic overhaul will take more than tweaks

Nature - As COVID-19 exacerbates inequalities, Thomas Piketty’s analysis reads as timely, but inadequate.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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A good a time as any to revisit some critiques of the body of work that this year's laureates have paved the way for. Last year, @farwasial and @cacrisalves wrote a critique of RCTs for @CriticalDev : Why Positive Thinking Won't Get You Out of Poverty 👇

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Why positive thinking won’t get you out of poverty

By Farwa Sial and Carolina Alves In a recent article in the New York Times, the development economist Seema Jayachandran discusses three studies that used Randomised Controlled Trials (or RCTs) to …

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Maria @mariadyveke & I have a new paper in @ReviewofPE on how to approach hierarchies of global finance, especially to understand finance in the Global South, with South Africa as an example. We argue for an anti-disciplinary, historical approach to structures & social relations.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Highly uneven impacts and responses to #Corona reveal important political economy differences across the world. The US & UK responses particularly expose the weaknesses of these economies as well as the governments' incapacity - and will - to tackle systemic societal issues. 1/n

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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I'm super honored to have been given the chance to write a legacy piece for Samir Amin. Thanks @DevandChg & @AndrewM_Fischer ! In it, I unpack Amin's intellectual legacy, including on unequal exchange, eurocentrism and delinking, as well as his activism.👇

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Samir Amin: A Pioneering Marxist and Third World Activist

Click on the article title to read more.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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As the week draws to an end, @KaiKodden @nssylla and I can't keep our draft to ourselves anymore. This year, we've been working on exploring what the whole debate about "financialization" in development has to do with Senegal & Ghana. The result is here:

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Maybe I've been to focused on the genocide and Palestinian right to resistance to recognize the need for certain condemnations. Sorry about the delay. I, too, condemn Habermas.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Angus Deaton and Nancy Cartwright's classic critique, which cautions against simple extrapolations from trials to other contexts, is also worth revisiting. The Limitations of Randomised Controlled Trials 👇

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The limitations of randomised controlled trials

In recent years, the use of randomised controlled trials has spread from labour market and welfare programme evaluation to other areas of economics, and to other social sciences, perhaps most...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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As debates on economic convergence rage on, one element has gone unquestioned: the use of GDP as a measure of growth. My new @GPIDnetwork Working Paper w/ @jacob_assa closes this gap. Read the short or long versions here 👇 And here's a thread. 1/9

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Cat's out of the bag 🤭

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Speaking of, we are writing a book ☺️

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In 2009 Elinor Ostrom became the only woman to ever win the Noble Prize in Econ. Now she has a prize named after her! The field might be more inclusive now? The Ostrom prize this year had 4/4 male jury members, 7/7 male nominees, 2/2 male winners... Right. HT @BesBalla

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Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities? Based on survey data, @SurbhiKesar and I make some observations regarding the Economics discipline and its lack of capacity to deal with race... +

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Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities?

Mainstream economics ignores historical and structural factors by design

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 months

Important myth busting work by Ilan Pappe.

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People congratulating the WTO on its first African and first woman leader... without acknowledging her role in promoting neoliberal policies that have been hamful for women and Africans 👀

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Best economic model I've seen in a while 😍😂

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Anyone who still thinks that the randomistas use RCTs as just another empirical tool, suggesting their work is not deeply embedded in neoclassical theory & assumptions, should read this piece by Oriana Bandiera.

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Alleviating poverty with experimental research: The 2019 Nobel laureates

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been jointly awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. This column...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Today is the day! We're presenting on what decolonizing economics means - in the heart of the mainstream of the field, the #ASSA2021 👀 Very sorry about high fees & impractical timing. If you're not able to join, we're happy to share slides etc.

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How do key arguments in the financialization literature change if they are interrogated from the vantage point of the Global South? @KaiKodden @nssylla and I tackle this question through a historical study of the financial systems of Senegal & Ghana. 🧵👇

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

¿Por qué tan hostil? Quebrando mitos sobre la economía heterodoxa My work on Heterodox Economics with @cacrisalves goes Spanish, and thanks to @OrlandoNSA ! Spanish version: The original in @CriticalDev :

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When you call out a conference with a lineup of 13/13 white men for lack diversity... and one of the speakers defends the lineup because he qualifies as a minority because he voted "leave". Time to call it a night!

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Philip Cunliffe

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Um I'm not an economist. I am a man. And a Leaver. Which means I belong to a minority in the academy. I congratulate the organisers on inviting an under-represented group to their conference.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Apparently even trying to explain the political context of Hamas is a perceived threat to Jewish students. Universities need to counter this attempted suppression of speech (and suppression of understanding of political context) from UK Government & media ASAP. @KingsCollegeLon

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Dear students, colleagues, friends, I am currently on strike & will not be responding to work-related emails or tweets during the strike period. Being on strike means we don't get paid & we spend our days on pickets (often cold, rainy). Why would we do this?🧵 #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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4 years

Happy birthday to Marx! 🥳 This day will always remind me of procrastinating before my PhD defense by writing this blog post on the legacies and misinterpretations of Marx with @cacrisalves 🙌✊

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Marx’s Birthday and the Dismal Science: A Few Observations

by Carolina Alves and Ingrid H. Kvangraven With 2017 marking the 150th anniversary of Capital and 2018 marking the bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx, it is not a surprise that the number of ev…

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How does how we measure GDP - largely determined by Western institutions & the economic structures of Western economies - impact how we perceive global convergence? What are political economy implications? @jacob_assa and I discuss this in @NPEjournal 👇

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Imputing Away the Ladder: Implications of Changes in GDP Measurement for Convergence Debates and...

What are the implications of changes in measurement standards of GDP for global convergence debates? What are the political economy implications? To answer the former question, we examine the chang...

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Last year leading economists argued in @guardian that the focus on micro-interventions associated with RCTs can do little to alleviate poverty if we fail to also tackle its root causes: Buzzwords & Tortuous Impact Studies Won't Fix a Broken Aid System 👇

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Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won't fix a broken aid system | 15 leading economists

Fifteen leading economists argue that the many billions of dollars spent on aid can do little to alleviate poverty while we fail to tackle its root causes

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Yet another sign that dependency theory as an approach is making a comeback and getting increased recognition and interest! Only more relevant now as #COVID19 is exacerbating existing inequalities. Thanks @eaepe 😄

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Simon Prize 2020: 'Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme' by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven.

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It has arrived 💁‍♀️ This book identifies important problems and raises crucial questions about hierarchies in the economics field 🔥 Congrats to all the contributors!

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Honored to visit the department where Rosa Luxemburg got her PhD to present about the relevance of decolonisation, post-colonial capitalism and imperialism today with @SurbhiKesar ! Thanks so much @DinaPomeranz for the invitation and to the students for critical engagement 🔥✊

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For those who gobbled up the Hamas sexual violence story of @nytimes uncritically - and to those who immediately spotted holes and ideology - @theintercept has published a thorough report of the process & lack of evidence and journalistic integrity by NYT.

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The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé

“Screams Without Words,” the New York Times story about sexual violence by Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, and Anat Schwartz comes under fire.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

6 years

First we were annoyed by @martinwolf_ 's list perpetuating white, male & mainstream biases. But then we got inspired to publish an alternative list! It's not like women, POC, scholars from Global South & heterodox economists aren't doing excellent work.

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An Alternative Economics Summer Reading List

by Carolina Alves, Besiana Balla, Devika Dutt and Ingrid H. Kvangraven This is a response list to Martin Wolf’s FT column recommending Economics books of 2018 for summer reading. While there …

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And somehow this dude is still considered a top development economist 😳 Well done @mehdirhasan for interrogating him on this racism and sloppiness.

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Mehdi Hasan

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One of my favourite ever exchanges from my @AJHeadtoHead show: Me vs economist Paul Collier on who is or isn't an "indigenous Briton" and whether I count! Have a watch:

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Economists should be addressing structural injustices, including racism, yes. But addressing racism in the police force by nudging?? And testing it with RCTs?? The Econ profession's gotta get it's shit together. #BlackLivesMatter

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Another prize supporting the 'empirical turn' in Econ. If mainstream econs are so interested in challenging "conventional wisdom," wouldn't it make more sense to look to Econ traditions with other conventions & insights, rather than centering causal studies on experiments? 🤔

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This year I went as a @Twitter Troll for Halloween! Dressed in a selection of troll attacks and insults (mostly by fellow academics) that have been directed towards me on Twitter over the years (my back was covered too!). #EconTwitter can be scary, right? 🎃

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In my @WorldDevJournal essay, I'm particularly concerned that tackling the systems that produce poverty require economists to be less like plumbers and more like the dev economists of the past. We need debates on a plurality of theories and approaches.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Marching with our union and 500,000 others in London yesterday. For a ceasefire and for an end to genocide, Israeli war crimes and an end to occupation of Palestine 🇵🇸

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Jean Drèze's critique is also important, which critiques the concept of "evidence-based policy," arguing that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought: Evidence, Policy, and Politics 👇

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Evidence, policy, and politics

Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he...

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"This study affirms that drain from the South remains a significant feature of the world economy in the post-colonial era". "The scale of unequal exchange increased significantly during the structural adjustment period." by @jasonhickel et al. HT @maxajl

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Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange,...

This paper quantifies drain from the global South through unequal exchange since 1960. According to our primary method, which relies on exchange-rate differentials, we find that in the most recent ...

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Come work with me at @KingsIntDev ! This position is open for both heterodox and mainstream development economists.

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It's an honor to endorse this exciting new book - coming out just in time for Christmas gift shopping ;) Essential for anyone interested in African economic & monetary sovereignty. 👇

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Me, a woman and economist, hiding under the bed: Armed robber: Me: Armed robber: Me: Armed robber: Economics is male-dominated because women just aren't interested in the field. Me: WTF HAVEN'T YOU SEEN ALL THE RESEARCH DOCUMENTING SEXISM IN ECON...shit. Okay shoot me now.

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Our podcast is out!!😱 After one year of work (wow). @BasileBoulay & I talk to critical scholars across the world about various hierarchies of development This was harder than expected to organize & curate. Please listen and give (honest) feedback😊 👇

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Hierarchies of Development

Listen to Hierarchies of Development on Spotify. The Hierarchies of Development podcast offers long format interviews focusing on enduring global inequalities. Conversations focus on contemporary...

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Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’? @cacrisalves and I explore this question in our recent @EconObservatory article, based on recent discussions at @FestivalofIdeas . A lil thread 👇

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#economicsfest: Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’? - Economics Observatory

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020 and the protests that followed, academic economists, along with others in higher education, have faced a reckoning...

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It's here! 😱 The @ROAPEjournal SPECIAL ISSUE: Samir Amin and beyond: radical political economy, dependence and delinking today With it, we hope to stimulate critical engagement with Amin’s work from a range of perspectives, critical & constructive. 🧵

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All I want for my birthday is... ...a globally coordinated, responsible, inclusive, and strong response to this goddamn global pandemic! 🎁💝🥳

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By sharing academic articles critiquing the randomistas' approach, I appear to have struck a nerve...

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Martin Ravallion's ( @MartinRavallion ) review of Poor Economics is also worth a read. He questions how far Duflo and Banerjee's approach will get us in the fight against global poverty: Fighting Poverty One Experiment at a Time 👇

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Our book on dependency theory is soon ready for sale with University of Zimbabwe Publications 🤩 It includes interviews with Samir Amin, Peter Evans, @NakedKeynes , @Idemamba , Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Patrick Bond & many more!

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I talk about Eurocentrism in development economics and dependency theory with @INETeconomics Full video:

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Dependency Theory & the Decolonization of Economics

Rethink global economics with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven as she delves into the Eurocentric nature of the field and the role dependency theory could play in decolonizing it.

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Rethink global economics with @ingridharvold @KingsCollegeLon as she delves into the Eurocentric nature of the field and the role #dependencytheory could play in decolonizing it: 👉👀

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Fixed that for you.

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Sanjay Reddy's ( @sanjaygreddy ) critique questions the randomistas' ability to explain global poverty and their approach's "technocratic premises, its naïve view of politics and society, and its unselfconscious do-goodism". Check it out: Randomise This! 👇

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For everyone who thought the problem with the Doing Business Indicators was 'simply' the ideological bias of the indicator itself👇😵 Rampant, blatant, widespread corruption & political manipulation at high levels of the @WorldBank , revealed in new report.

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Very good news to see the World Bank finally end the ideological nonsense that was its 'Doing Business' rankings. But the report the Bank has published on the reasons why is almost unbelievable - the extent of corruption in the organisation is just mindblowing.

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What happens when 7 scholars from different heterodox traditions, including Marxism, Post-Keynesianism & Dependency Theory, get together to work on finance? It actually did not descend into total chaos 🤯 Check out our research agenda on international financial subordination 😊

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Ilias Alami

2 years

New open access article in @RIPEJournal , co-authored with @anninak82 @cacrisalves @BBonizzi @KaiKodden @ingridharvold and @Powell_J_R is out! Quick 🧵

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

3 years

"The mainstream is already heterodox."

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

6 years

Funny that @TheEconomist thinks the world is "fixated" on Marx. I wonder why Econ journals won't publish Marxist analysis then? And why is Marx not taught in Econ depts? Why do economists (mis)cite him only to undermine his ideas? Seems like marginalization rather than fixation..

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The Economist

6 years

Why the world remains fixated on the ideas of a man who helped produce so much suffering

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

Really happy to have had the opportunity to write a paper on what the effects of and responses to #COVID__19 say about the cracks in the dominant Economics narrative with the brilliant @cacrisalves for @reviewagrarian . Time for a lil thread. Full paper: +

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Carolina Alves

4 years

In the coming months & years, there will be a battle to define the narrative of the pandemic. We need an explanation of the crisis that is capable of seeing the economy as more than just markets and, rather, as embedded in society (Alves & Kvangraven 2020)

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

3 years

Our critical little blog has turned 20k! 🥳 Follow it for posts that challenge mainstream thinking on economics and development and that introduce key academic debates in accessible language.

Developing Economics (@CriticalDev) on X

This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Related is also Ben Fine et al's critique of behavioral approaches in development from 2015: Nudging or Fudging 👇

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

How is heterodox economics relevant for understanding the world? How can hetecon theories, e.g. those of production & reproduction, help us understand both causes & consequences of #COVID__19 ? What are the gender, race & class implications of the pandemic? CfP Deadline May 15th!

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Following Samir Amin's (and @nssylla 's) footsteps in Dakar 🔥

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

There's also @N_Kabeer 's critique, which questions to what extent RCTs take human agency seriously. Here's an interview with her by @fp2p : Naila Kabeer on Why Randomized Controlled Trials Need to Include Human Agency 👇

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Come do a PhD with us at @KingsIntDev 🔥 Full funding for African students --> see eligibility criteria and more info 👇 Happy to chat with prospective students considering topics that overlap with my expertise.

Africa International PGR Scholarships 2022-23

Please note that we no longer accept applications; the information is published for reference.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Really eye-opening piece from researchers with a negative experience from engagement with randomistas. They find that the laureates' efforts have not led to shifting economic paradigms in a progressive way, nor to enabling greater realism in econ thinking.

2019 Nobel* prize reveals the poverty of economics - Institute of Development Studies

The three new Laureates deserve the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel. But the award shows how poor the modern economics discipline is in terms of gender equality, research methods,...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Heterodox economists: what do you think the single most important idea in economics is? What would your answer be? (Was struck by how the responses to this thread are almost all about incentives & comp advantage. Curious about how hetecons respond.) HT @devikadutt

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

Since today's the day for polarizing debates about Econ... Just out in ROPE: Behind last year's 'Nobel' winners' rebellious façade is an approach in line with a narrow & Eurocentric field that limits, rather than strengthens, our ability to fight poverty.

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Nobel Rebels in Disguise — Assessing the Rise and Rule of the Randomistas

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their pioneering of randomized control trials (RCT...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Re-discovered this brilliant @tri_continental notebook on the rate of exploitation of iPhone assembly workers this week. Excellent teaching resource & good example of how radical analysis can be made into accessible teaching material too.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

10 months

Excellent on Decolonisation & Its Discontents by Kevin Okoth @salvagedotzone , including materialist anti-imperialist critiques of certain strands of decoloniality, response to Tuck & Yang, critique of deferential versions of standpoint theory & much more.

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Decolonisation and its Discontents by Kevin Okoth

how do contemporary movements for decolonisation – emerging almost exclusively from universities, museums and arts institutions – relate to the historical process of decolonisation enacted by the...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

"Everyone else is ideological, not me." And people wonder why it's so hard to reform the field of Economics...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Coming up @ @KingsIntDev : On the Illusions of Green Capitalism with @adribuller ! Buller discusses limits to market-based solutions to the environmental crisis, taking how IMF estimates the monetary value of a whale as example. Organized by @devikadutt , @nith1989 as discussant.👇

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King's International Development

2 years

The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism with Adrienne Buller 🐋 📅16 Nov at 4pm Based on her new book, Adrienne Buller will discuss the limits of financialization of nature as a solution to the environmental crises we face

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

FT undermining the letter signed by 163 economist. Somehow the letter is less credible because "most of the signatories are left-leaning academics"? 🤔🧐 How often does @FT describe economists as "right-leaning"? (or are those just "economists"?)

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Jo Michell

4 years

“Although most of the signatories are left-leaning” 🙄

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

Come be my almost-colleague over at the awesome @kings_eis . They're hiring a Lecturer in IPE with specialism in *Heterodox Economics* 😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

6 years

Paul Romer. Is he a contrarian economist? Is he neocolonial? My thoughts on this year's Economics Nobel winner from a few years ago - when he was selected to be the World Bank's chief economist.

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Why Isn’t The World Bank’s Choice of Chief Economist More Controversial?

This week it became clear that the World Bank has chosen Paul Romer as its next Chief Economist. As Chief Economist he’ll have the overall responsibility of the Bank’s research program and be able …

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 months

2023 – Association for Heterodox Economics Statement in Solidarity with Palestine

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Statements . . 2023 Association for Heterodox Economics Statement in Solidarity with Palestine . The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Palestini…

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

It might be cliché to quote Foucault, but rereading this passage reminded me of the whirlwind of discussions in the wake of #EconNobel2019 #RCTs #WhatWorks : "All forms of knowledge are intimately connected to power relations and therefore truth isn't outside power." (1980:131)

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

3 months

In what ways can heterodox economists understand the political economy of Palestine? The next @hetecon @urpe1968 webinar explores this, and also the likely paths going forward. Featuring Ibrahim Shikaki, Samia Al-Botmeh and Raja Khalidi. Sign up 👇

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Latin American theories have been largely neglected in the West, despite their relevance for understanding uneven development. At our upcoming workshop, European students get to present alongside & learn from leading Latin American scholars. Share & apply!

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Officially wrote my longest twitter thread ever! On development economics, RCTs, and the exclusion of heterodox economics. Thanks @DinaPomeranz and @AndrewM_Fischer for the engagement. Others, feel free to jump in, I'm sure I missed points and poorly formulated others.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

@DinaPomeranz @AndrewM_Fischer @sebacampanario Thanks Dina! I think our differences are becoming more clear, after having established some agreement. I'll try to tease them out even further and clarify some aspects I think you may have misunderstood. Okay, here goes, this will be a long one. 1/n

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

2 years

“Even the most progressive policy agendas show little consideration for how to achieve rapid decarbonization in the Global South without destabilizing its economy.” From the fab team @devikadutt and @Alden_Young ! 🔥 via @NoemaMag

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The Human Cost Of Moving Away From Fossil Fuels | NOEMA

The conversation about climate change needs to shift from simply reducing carbon emissions to ensuring that developing nations can take part in a diversified green economy.

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Excited about our new project on domestic debt markets in developing economies: "Who shapes them? What drives them? Who benefits?" A collaboration with @anninak82 @metz_caroline @megiraudo @_ArpitaB and @Jonperraton , funded by @WhiteRoseUC . Stay tuned.

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Domestic debt markets in developing economies: - White Rose University Consortium

Who shapes them? What drives them? Who benefits? In the new era of market-based finance, developing countries are developing their domestic debt markets at unprecedented speeds and depths, contribu...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

Even randomistas must find this study problematic, colonial, unethical, no? Randomizing Christian "theology education" among people living in poverty in the Philippines to examine how changes in behavior impact on economic outcomes. Apparently acceptable RQ for @QJEHarvard ...

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QJE

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Recently accepted by #QJE : “Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes,” by Bryan, Choi, and Karlan ( @deankarlan ):

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

1 year

What's wrong with development studies & how can we change it? It was super interesting & thought-provoking to discuss this with @SaraStevano @Kamnatweets and @IndrajitRoyYork recently in Manchester. We summarized the discussion on the @devcomms blog 👇

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What’s wrong with Development Studies and how can we change it? — Development Studies Association

In January 2023, convenors of the DSA’s Politics and Political Economy Study Group, organised a conference to seek new development paradigms or to chart new ways forward for the field, combined with...

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

6 years

Looks like @SOASEconomics & @kingseuropean could only think of white men for this conference. 13 speakers. ALL WHITE MEN. No wonder Economics is lagging behind other disciplines when it comes to diversity. What do we do? 1/6

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

4 years

Thanks @Claudia_Sahm 's for sharing all these incidences of harassment in Economics. A depressing and angering read. It's time we all start speaking up against the racism, sexism, hostility, exclusivity, and elitism in the profession! We need to do better.

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Economics is a disgrace

Today, September 7, 2022, I updated my “disgrace post. I have redacted all the names of the senior economists and some details. I stand by every word of the original post, but it’s as p…

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

5 years

Trends in global income distribution: An elephant or a giraffe? Same data as the elephant graph, but presented in terms of absolute gains rather than income growth rates. Makes the past decades look a lot less equalising. HT Jakob Kapeller's @heterodoxnews , @BrankoMilan

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