YSI Event – Theoretical Foundations of Economic Development: a Classical Reappraisal
The year 2020 involves by coincidence a set of celebrations about great critically oriented economists: 60 years of Sr
Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven. Originally published at openDemocracy UK This week it was announced that Abhijit Baner
Taking poverty studies – and policy – back from the rich.
Political economist Andrew Fischer studies poverty, and the study of poverty, beyond the neoliberal frame – fr
Samir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
Taking as its point of departure this documentary, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, depicts the audacious str
An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?
By Mark Peacock, This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for exam
New Book: Transition Economies – Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe & Former Soviet Union
By Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan. From Routledge: This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the tran
Call For Papers: How to conceptualise Financialisation in Developing and Emerging economies?
How to conceptualise Financialisation in Developing and Emerging economies? Manifestations, Drivers and Implicat
Call for Submissions: Special Issue On Mexico & Labor Movement
The editors of Journal of Labor and Society (LANDS) invite submissions for a special issue on the Mexican workers and la
New book: When Things Don’t Fall Apart – Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence
By Ilene Grabel. From MIT Press: In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the gl
New Book: Extracting Profit – Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
by Lee Wengraf. From Haymarket Books: A piercing historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societi
Call for papers: Development Studies Association Conference 2018
27-29th June 2018 Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the ann
Call for papers: Productive Structures, Institutions and Distribution
The YSI Economic Development Working Group is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the theme of Productive Structur
The Growth of a “Dual Economy” in the Centre
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehVTvutAvk&w=761&h=428] Marcella Corsi, Guy Standing, Pe
New Book: Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective
Edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, & Hans-Heinrich Nolte. From Routledge: During its 500-year history, t
Xiao Jiang on Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGXG6ORuoQ&w=640&h=360] In a world composed of global valu
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat – New Signs of Resistance
by Patrick Bond A few years ago, at the very moment that Africa’s GDP ceased its rapid 2002–11 increase, a profound myth t
New Book: The Good Life Beyond Growth – New Perspectives
Edited by Hartmut Rosa & Christoph Henning. From Routledge: Many countries have experienced a decline of economi
New Book: The Class Struggle in Latin America – Making History Today
By James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer. From Routledge: The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses
New Book: Understanding Global Poverty – Causes, Capabilities and Human Development
By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis. From Routledge: Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study
Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A Better Set of Approaches for the 21st Century
By Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev and Joseph Stiglitz. From the abstract: This paper aims to provide an intellectual basis t