黑料社区

2017 was a dramatic year in many ways. But before it completely flies by, let’s not forget the important contributions made to the development debate on this blog this year! Here are the top 10 most read posts of 2017:

1. Kicking Away the (Statistical) Ladder (Jacob Assa, UN)
2. An Economic Strategy for The Gambia? (Sanjay Reddy, The New School)
3. Is 鈥業mperialism鈥� a Relevant Concept Today? A Debate Among Marxists (Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, The New School)
4. 80 Economic Bestsellers before 1850: A Fresh Look at the History of Economic Thought (Erik Reinert, Tallinn University of Technology)
5. Re-centering Inequality in African Economic History (Alden Young, Drexel University)
6. e-Book Launch: Can Dependency Theory Explain Our World Today? (editorial)
7. The Financialization of Africa鈥檚 Development (Richard Itaman, SOAS)
8. Towards a Critical Pluralist Research Agenda in Development Economics: Some Bricks from Berlin to Build Upon (Svenja Flechtner,聽Freie Universit盲t Berlin, Jakob Hafele, Vienna University, and Theresa Neef, Freie Universit盲t Berlin)
9. 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory: How Is This Still A Thing? (Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, The New School)
10. Advancing a Research Agenda of Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency (Adel Daoud, University of Cambridge)

There are many blog posts that did not make the top 10 ‘most read’聽 that are still absolutely worth revisiting. For example:

• The Power of the Market (Desmond McNeill, The University of Oslo)
• Thinking politically about capital controls: a class perspective (Ilias Alami, The University of Manchester)
• Unequal Inequalities Revisited (Joshua Greenstein, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
• A Critical Review on the documentary 鈥淧overty, Inc.鈥� (Jos茅 G. Caraballo, The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey)
• A Soft Law Mechanism for Sovereign Debt Restructuring (Martin Guzman, Columbia University)
• What Can We Learn from Alternative Theories of Economic Development? (Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, The New School)
• Emerging Market Downgrades: Panic at the Disco? (Ilan Strauss, The New School)
• The BRICS and a Changing World (Sanjay Reddy, The New School)
• Poor Behavior, Good Behavioral Policies? Double Standards for the North and South (Svenja Flechtner,聽Freie Universit盲t Berlin)
• The long run evolution of the rich in India 1937-2012 (Rishabh Kumar, California State University)
• Toward an Economic Theory of Imperialism? (Mohamed Obaidy, The New School)
• How Racist Rhodesia Did It And 鈥業ndependent鈥� Zimbabwe Is Getting It Wrong: Comparing Currency and Finance Under Sanctions (Tinashe Nyamunda, University of the Free State)
• Small and Medium Enterprise Development: A Case of Hamlet without the Prince (Kagiso Zwane, Wits University)
• Hazards of a Boom (Robert Wade, LSE)

Want to contribute to the blog? Contact Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven.