Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 30, No. 3, SPECIAL FOCUS: Research on Southeast Asia in the Nordic Countries (2002), pp. 602-622 (21 pages) This paper examines the pronouncements of Japanese ...

World Review of Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 511-534 (24 pages) The 2008 great financial crisis brought the question of the cyclical development of capitalism back to the ...

When survival over generations is the end game, researchers say it makes sense to undervalue long shots that could be profitable and overestimate the likelihood of rare bad outcomes. Making decisions ...

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 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, the preeminent economist Milton Friedman wrote that businesses don't have a social responsibility to society, only to creating wealth. In the half-century since, economists have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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