I have a new working paper with Carolina Alves in the ESRC GPID Research Network Working Paper series.
Read a short blog post about the project or a long one.
Download the working paper here.
Author: Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Lecturer in International Development at the University of York, among other things.
Keynote on the political economy of the SDGs, Rio de Janeiro (video)
I was invited by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) to give a keynote on the political economy of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at their annual conference, which was organized in collaboration with the IAP Science for Poverty Eradication Committee. You can view the keynote presentation in the video above. Here is my presentation and here is a news article on the event (in Portuguese).
New blog post: Why so Hostile? Busting Myths about Heterodox Economics
Carolina Alves and I unpack misunderstandings about Heterodox Economics in our recent blog post on Developing Economics:
By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Carolina Alves
“Economics is unique among the social sciences in having a single monolithic mainstream, which is either unaware of or actively hostile to alternative approaches.” (John King 2013: 17)
What does heterodox economics mean? Is the label helpful or harmful? Being outside of the mainstream of the Economics discipline, the way we position ourselves may be particularly important. For this reason, many around us shun the use of the term “heterodox” and advise against using it. However, we believe the reluctance to use the term stems in part from misunderstandings of (and sometimes disagreement over) what the term means and perhaps disagreements over strategies for how to change the discipline.
In other words, this is an important debate about both identification and strategy. In this blog, we wish to raise the issue in heterodox and mainstream circles, by busting a few common myths about Heterodox Economics – mostly stemming from the orthodoxy. This is a small part of a larger project on defining heterodox economics.
Read more here.
The post has also been re-published by Union for Radical Political Economics and the Monthly Review. It has also been translated to Spanish (see here).
Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game
I recently published the post Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game along with colleagues for the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) blog series “Diversity and Pluralism in Economics: Problems and Solutions”.
New blog post: Samir Amin and Beyond
I recently had the pleasure of publishing on Samir Amin in one of my favorite blogs, Africa is a Country, along with my colleagues Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Maria Dyveke Styve. Read the whole piece here.
Women in Politics – Panel Discussion
Read about the Women in Politics panel I participated in alongside IGDC colleagues, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
New op-ed on fossil fuel fee (Norwegian)
Along with Rune Skarstein, Anders Skonhoft, Olav Fagerlid, Lars Mjøset, Ida Sognnæs, Ebba Boye, Knut Alfsen, Per Espen Stoknes, Anders Ekeland, and Solveig Glomsrød, I argue for an effective and fair fee on fossil fuel production in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. Read the full essay here (in Norwegian).
The Tyranny of Metrics – Panel Discussion
On February 9th 2019, I presented on a panel with Desmond McNeill (Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo) and Morten Jerven (Norwegian University of Life Sciences). I presented specifically on the politics of GDP measurement (based on this recent working paper I co-authored with Jacob Assa). The panel was a part of the Rethinking Sustainability conference organized by Rethinking Economics, Norway. My slides can be found here. [Note: the video is in Norwegian]
Samir Amin’s Legacy and Relevance Today (DSA 2019 Panel)
Please consider submitting to this panel on the legacy of Samir Amin that I am co-convening with Maria Dyveke Styve (University of Bergen) and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe) at the Development Studies Association (DSA) conference at the Open University, Milton Keynes, June 19th to 21st 2019. Continue reading “Samir Amin’s Legacy and Relevance Today (DSA 2019 Panel)”
New Working Paper: Imputing Away the Ladder?
I recently published Imputing Away the Ladder? Implications of Changes in National Accounting Standards for Assessing Inter-country Inequalities as a Working Paper with Jacob Assa with the Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Research Network.
Read our blog post for the GPID network here. I also summarized our arguments in a Twitter thread.
Our findings were also covered in UnHerd. You can download our data here.