Developing Economics @CriticalDev
This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold. developingeconomics.org Joined July 2016-
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NEW POST: Another brilliant piece by @farwasial assessing the New World Order against Tariffs. She especially analyses to what extent the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Development Bank may be an anti-sanctions tool. developingeconomics.org/2025/09/05/new…
NEW POST: @mohsenanvaari makes an excellent contribution to the critique of "systems thinking" and polycrisis. Unpacking these scholars' foundational assumptions and politics, he finds Eurocentrism, ahistoricism, and politically naïveté. Check it out. developingeconomics.org/2025/08/26/sys…
"Even the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth — groundbreaking in modeling planetary boundaries — exemplified this pattern: technocratic in tone, light on political economy, and silent on power" developingeconomics.org/2025/08/26/sys…
"If systems thinking is to fulfill its emancipatory potential, its lens must widen. Biophysical limits, cultural narratives, and human psychology must be placed in dialectical relation to the structural realities of power." @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/08/26/sys…
"No doughnut chart can measure the systemic violence required to maintain Norwegian comfort. For Oslo—a city financed by oil exports and NATO’s war machine—adopting the doughnut is like an arsonist installing smoke detectors while stockpiling gasoline."
"No doughnut chart can measure the systemic violence required to maintain Norwegian comfort. For Oslo—a city financed by oil exports and NATO’s war machine—adopting the doughnut is like an arsonist installing smoke detectors while stockpiling gasoline."
COOPT, EMPTY, EVISCERATE: Nievas and Piketty on Unequal Exchange developingeconomics.org/2025/06/16/coo… μέσω @CriticalDev
Systems Thinking, Polycrisis, and the Blind Spot of Power @mohsenanvaari developingeconomics.org/2025/08/26/sys… via @CriticalDev
Whose Polycrisis? @farwasial developingeconomics.org/2023/01/27/who… via @CriticalDev
Beating around the Bush: Polycrisis, Overlapping Emergencies, and Capitalism Baki Güney Işıkara liberalstudies.nyu.edu/about/faculty-… developingeconomics.org/2022/11/22/bea… via @CriticalDev
NEW POST: Vivek N.D. critically examines the financial shift in the @WHO and the fundamental problems with philanthrocapitalism that have led to what can now be described as "a global health financing emergency." developingeconomics.org/2025/08/19/how…
"[Raworth's Doughnut] built on an information-deficit model that assumes lack of scientific knowledge is main barrier to societal transformation. This makes it blind to power." developingeconomics.org/2025/08/05/the… It presupposes voluntay dismantling of systems that grant wealth & privilege
Lectura recomendada de @farwasial "Private Equity in the Global South: Locusts? Vampires? The contagion effect – Developing Economics" developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…
Specifically - "money is a creature of commodities", and therefore of the totality of social relations of production and consumption, and not (exclusively) of the state. developingeconomics.org/2021/03/17/mon…
The Doughnut and the Divide: Can Norway Confront Its Imperial Mode of Living? developingeconomics.org/2025/08/05/the… via @CriticalDev
The Economist Who Solved the Free-Rider Problem developingeconomics.org/2025/06/24/the… via @CriticalDev
NEW POST: @mohsenanvaari reviews a confrontation between degrowth & ecological economics that took place in Oslo this summer. He contrasts @KateRaworth's Doughnut Economics w/@maxajl's anti-imperialism & analyses the role of Norway in the global system. developingeconomics.org/2025/08/05/the…
NEW POST: Felipe Irarrazaval exposes and interrogates the recent somewhat confusing developments in the relationship between Chilean authorities and the Chinese companies BYD and Yongqing Technology. What's the geopolitics of it all? Have a read 👇 developingeconomics.org/2025/07/29/the…

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