Developing Economics

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

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

The Developing Economics blog has been listed as top 100 economics blogs to follow in 2026! 🥳
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[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New Post: The Soviet Planning Model by @cpc01: The Soviet development strategy was the principal factor explaining the consolidation of Socialism in One Country subject to capitalist encirclement and plagued by war.(Part of Series on Development Planning)
https://t.co/WsSNawkHJg

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: @Crystal_Ennis on parmiagiano and financialisation 🧀
https://t.co/W7jhv8uO0Z

[Crystal A. Ennis @Crystal_Ennis]

What do cheese 🧀, maple syrup 🍁 & the heating planet 🌍 tell us about global capitalism 💰? My short reflection for @CriticalDev written during this summer's heatwave across Europe. https://t.co/p4WZb9FXuP

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: @Crystal_Ennis on parmiagiano and financialisation 🧀
https://t.co/W7jhv8uO0Z

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW post!: @CelineCLTan and @paulrgilbert contest the current ideational infrastructure of knowledge, expertise/power on climate finance which privileges certain constituencies (global north/ powerful/ private/ corporate) over others.
https://t.co/VKWgyAI69M

[Phil 🆓🌍🧩🎲 @Phil_Free_]

“However, as with all political action, what is required is a coalition of forces capable of shaping the actions of the elites.”

The economist who exposed the hypocrisy of the free market - @CriticalDev
https://t.co/w67fULzSco

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW post!: @CelineCLTan and @paulrgilbert contest the current ideational infrastructure of knowledge, expertise/power on climate finance which privileges certain constituencies (global north/ powerful/ private/ corporate) over others.
https://t.co/VKWgyAI69M

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New! Tribute to Peruvian Economist Oscar Ugarteche by Isabel Ortiz. Founder of Latin American Economic Observatory (OBELA),@latindadd, author of 28 books "he is every one of the young economists who learned from him to look the system straight in the eye"
https://t.co/AUIiqpgJjL

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

For a detailed discussion on the Soviet Model. Join the IDEAs webinar Series on the 3rd August. 10:30 UTC https://t.co/GJZfled2aw

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New Post: The Soviet Planning Model by @cpc01: The Soviet development strategy was the principal factor explaining the consolidation of Socialism in One Country subject to capitalist encirclement and plagued by war.(Part of Series on Development Planning)
https://t.co/WsSNawkHJg

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Join us for IDEAs 2nd webinar series Reviving Central Planning: A view from the Global South.

This time we will be looking at The Soviet Union model. The world's first comprehensive planning approach centering equal resource distribution.

🗓️ 3 August, 10:30 UTC
👉Register: Scan QR or visit https://t.co/UvsWmJQwvy

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

💻Webinar: National planning: The Soviet Union model
🗓️Schedule: 3 August, 10:30 UTC
👩🏻‍🏫Moderator: @farwasial
👨🏻‍🏫Discussants: Prabhat Patnaik and @cpc01
👉Register: Scan QR or visit https://t.co/AKp1xOlefF

📌This webinar is the second in the series "Reviving central planning: A Global South perspective", which aims to explore the basics of central planning as they existed around the world and understand the relevance of planned development today. The discussions will focus on the diverse cases of Russia, Eastern Europe, and East Asia to provide a historical analysis of their respective planning models, an assessment of the strengths and limitations of their implementation of these models, as well as an introduction to the rich analysis that emerged from the economic debates and ideas of economists on the idea of and the actual experience with planning.

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: What would it mean to envisionlabour-led urban development —rather than capital- or state-centred development? @DebolinaMaj and @MCollord offer collective reflections based on a recent workshop. And an invitation to join the conversation.
https://t.co/yyhRMCCs7A

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

Sarah Raymundo on violence, counter-insurgency in the #Negros, #Philippine:
"The island of sugar and massacres.. They recur not because history repeats itself mechanically but because the agrarian question remains unresolved".
https://t.co/jWmAEbadTL

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Webinar 1: Why Revisit National Planning. We start with a mention of Global South visionaries: Xue Muqiao,Mahalanobis,Ismail Sabri Abdalla, A. M. Babu,Pedro Vuskovic, Che Guevera & define the fundamentals of Planning with Professors Patnaik Chandrasekhar https://t.co/K9TTjsnHwf

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

New- First Post on the Series Reviving Central Planning. Prabhat Patnaik 'Deliberate intervention by the State is needed not only to overcome demand-constraints, as the Keynesians argue, but, to alter composition of demand in a socially equitable manner. https://t.co/6sgu6fRF3K

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

NEW POST: What would it mean to envisionlabour-led urban development —rather than capital- or state-centred development? @DebolinaMaj and @MCollord offer collective reflections based on a recent workshop. And an invitation to join the conversation.
https://t.co/yyhRMCCs7A

[Farwa Sial @farwasial]

Devastating by Sarah Raymundo @jinkydoo -on counter-insurgency in Negros island
"Gogol understood this. The dead soul is not only the dead peasant. It is also the living conscience that gradually loses its capacity to recognize another human being"
https://t.co/Ffa88g3m2M

[فيصل @faisal_al_asaad]

"Yet the dead do not disappear. This is perhaps what frightened ruling classes historically about communists, peasant movements, and national liberation struggles. The dead continue organizing the living."

[Developing Economics @CriticalDev]

Sarah Raymundo on violence, counter-insurgency in the #Negros, #Philippine:
"The island of sugar and massacres.. They recur not because history repeats itself mechanically but because the agrarian question remains unresolved".
https://t.co/jWmAEbadTL