Book
Dutt, D., C. Alves, S. Kesar and I. H. Kvangraven. 2025. Decolonizing Economics – An Introduction. London: Polity Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Maria Dyveke Styve. 2023. “The Hierarchies of Global Finance: An Anti-Disciplinary Research Agenda.” Review of Political Economy. DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2023.2242209.
Kvangraven, I.H. and S. Kesar. 2022. ‘Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda’, Review of International Political Economy, November 9th.
Assa, J. and I.H. Kvangraven. 2021. ‘Imputing Away the Ladder: Implications of Changes in GDP Measurement for Convergence Debates and the Political Economy of Development‘, New Political Economy ,07 Jan 2021.
Kvangraven, I.H. 2020. ‘Nobel Rebels in Disguise: Assessing the Rise and Rule of the Randomistas’, Review of Political Economy, October 12th.
Debate pieces in peer-reviewed journals
Kvangraven, I.H. 2025. “The Nobel Fetish: Eurocentric Foundations for Innovation-driven Growth.” Economic and Political Weekly LX (45), 26-29. Also available in Norwegian.
Kvangraven, I.H., S. Kesar and D. Dutt. 2024. “The Colonial Origins of Economics.” Economic and Political Weekly 59 (42), 22-25. Download PDF here. Translations are available in Portuguese, Persian and French.
Ouma, Stefan, Christine Vogt-William, Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Abena D. Oduro, Tanita J. Lewis, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Sara Stevano and Ingrid Kvangraven. 2023. Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification. Critical African Studies.
Kvangraven, I.H. 2020. ‘Impoverished economics? A critical assessment of the new gold standard,’ World Development 127.
Alves, C. and I.H. Kvangraven. 2020. ‘Changing the Narrative: Economics After Covid-19‘, Review of Agrarian Studies. 10(1).
Working papers
Kvangraven, I.H. 2024. Re-Considering the Structural in Contemporary Analysis of the Global Political Economy, in Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Luíza Cerioli (Eds) Bringing Heterodoxy Back into a World of Pessimism, Extractivism Occassional Papers Series 1/2024.
Saltelli, A., Andreoni, A., W. Drechsler, J. Ghosh, R. Kattel, I.H. Kvangraven, I. Rafols, E.Reinert, A. Stirling and T. Xu. Why ethics of quantification is needed now. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series 2021/05.
Assa, J. and I.H. Kvangraven. 2018. Imputing Away the Ladder? Implications of Changes in National Accounting Standards for Assessing Inter-country Inequalities, GPID Research Network Working Paper 14.
Book chapters
Reinert, E. and I.H.Kvangraven (2023) “Introduction: uneven development ‒ addressing causes versus treating symptoms” in Reinert, E. and I.H.Kvangraven (eds) A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Popular pieces
Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange, Institute for New Economic Thinking, August 6th, 2025.
The need for South-centred theorisation in Development Studies, Development Studies Association, March 7th, 2023
GDP numbers are not what they seem: how they boost US and UK at expense of developing countries, The Conversation, June 10th, 2021.
The Washington Counterfactual: don’t believe the Washington Consensus resurrection (with Carolina Alves and Daniela Gabor), Developing Economics, April 8th, 2021.
Reclaiming Economics After Covid-19. (with Carolina Alves) Progressive International, August 14, 2020.
Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities? (with Surbhi Kesar) Institute for New Economic Thinking, August 3, 2020
If we want to tackle global inequality, we need better economic theories, openDemocracy June 11th, 2020.
Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize, openDemocracy, October 18th, 2019
200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory: How Is This Still A Thing? Developing Economics, April 2017
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
How to Justify Teaching the Worst of Economics to Non-Economists, New School Economic Review, April 2015
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