I like breaking complex issues down into simple digestible blog posts to make complicated academic issues digestible to new readers. I use blogging as a way to test out new ideas, explore new questions, as well as to share my thoughts and research with a wider community. Blogging is also, crucially, a way of democratising science and radical scholarship and a way of increasing public debate about economic issues.
Take a look at the blog I run here, which includes contributions from a range of scholars that approach economic development in different ways. I also contribute regularly to D-Econ’s (biannual) Seasonal Alternative Reading List.
Here is a collection of some of my blog posts:
- Decolonising Economics – A Blog Series (with Carolina Alves), Developing Economics, July 15th, 2024
- Critically Assessing the Development Potential of Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa (with Florence Dafe, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Iván Weigandi), Making Finance Work for Africa, May 31st 2024.
- The need for South-centred theorisation in Development Studies, Development Studies Association, March 7th, 2023
- Decolonising Economics Teaching, Part 1: Some thoughts on the curriculum (with Ariane Agunsoye and Michelle Groenewald), Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, April 22nd, 2022.
- Decolonising Economics Teaching, Part 1: Some thoughts on pedagogy (with Ariane Agunsoye and Michelle Groenewald), Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, April 22nd, 2022.
- Beyond Eurocentrism, Aeon, April 15th, 2022.
- Galileo and neoliberal academia: a critical assessment of UK higher education (with Surbhi Kesar), Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, March 9th, 2022.
- GDP numbers are not what they seem: how they boost US and UK at expense of developing countries, The Conversation, June 10th, 2021.
- No more debt inequalities (with Jayati Ghosh), Progressive International, April 22nd, 2021.
- The Washington Counterfactual: don’t believe the Washington Consensus resurrection (with Carolina Alves and Daniela Gabor), Developing Economics, April 8th, 2021.
- Enduring Relevance: Samir Amin’s radical political economy (with Maria Dyveke Styve, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Ray Bush), Review of African Political Economy, March 16th 2021.
- Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’? (with Carolina Alves) Economics Observatory, January 20th, 2021.
- An Anti-Imperialist Call for Debt Justice, Progressive International,August 21st 2020.
- Reclaiming Economics After Covid-19 (with Carolina Alves), Progressive International, August 14th 2020
- Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities? (with Surbhi Kesar), Institute for New Economic Thinking, August 3rd 2020
- Beyond The Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant, Progress in Political Economy, June 24, 2020.
- If we want to tackle global inequality, we need better economic theories, openDemocracy June 11th, 2020.
- Samir Amin: A Pioneering Marxist and Third World Activist, Progress in Political Economy, January 28th, 2020
- Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize, openDemocracy, October 18th, 2019
- Why so Hostile? Busting Myths about Heterodox Economics (with Carolina Alves), Developing Economics, May 8, 2019
- Marx’s Birthday and the Dismal Science: A Few Observations (with Carolina Alves), Developing Economics, May 2018
- Caveat emptor: the Graduation Approach, electronic payments and the potential pitfalls of financial inclusion (with Paulo dos Santos), Developing Economics, July 2017
- Is ‘Imperialism’ a Relevant Concept Today? A Debate Among Marxists, Developing Economics, May 2017
- 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory: How Is This Still A Thing? Developing Economics, April 2017
- What Can We Learn From Alternative Theories of Economic Development? Developing Economics, January 2017
- Philanthropy in Development: Undermining Democracy? Rising Powers in Global Governance, October 2016
- The Trouble with Sub-Saharan African Debt (with Aleksandr Gevorkyan) Interfima, October 2016
- On the Blogs: Lack of Good Governance at the World Bank, Developing Economics, September 2016
- Are Norwegian Investments in Sovereign Bonds Responsible? Debt Justice Norway, September 2016
- What Did the Panama Papers Reveal About Africa (and the World)? Developing Economics, August 2016
- Development Economics: A Study of Economies, Systems, or Methods? Developing Economics, August 2016
- Why Isn’t The World Bank’s Choice of Chief Economist More Controversial? New School Economic Review, July 2016
- Financial Inclusion and Its Discontents (with Paulo dos Santos), Private Debt Project, April 2016
- FNs bærekraftsmål: Manglende kobling mellom mål og middel, Debt Justice Norway, December 2015
- Can development goals help development finance? If so, how? Righting Finance, October 2015
- Does the world really need development goals? (with Sanjay Reddy) Financial Times BeyondBrics, August 2015
- How to Justify Teaching the Worst of Economics to Non-Economists, New School Economic Review, April 2015
- William Easterly and The Myths of Development, New School Economic Review, March 2014
