Decolonizing Economics book launch, UCL, October 2025 (with Carolina Alves and Surbhi Kesar)
“The end of free trade and the new world economy,” HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, September, 2025
Decolonizing finance and the financial system in Africa, July 2025
Interview by Adnan Husain on Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange, July 2025
Plenary on imperialism at Historical Materialism, Paris, June 2025
Decolonising Economic Development: The Role of the Development Sector (with Surbhi Kesar), June 2025
Interview on the Reimagining Development podcast (with Surbhi Kesar), April 2025
Interview with The Mint magazine on colonization and the history of economic thought, March 2025
Inaugural plenary for the Center for Heterodox Economics, University of Tulsa, February 2025
Decolonizing and Diversifying Economics, Dawn News English, October 2024
Do Rich Countries Keep Poor Countries Poor? Unlearning Economics, July 2024
Law and Heterodox Economics, LPE Europe, May 2024
International financial subordination, Almanassa, March 2024
Dependency Theory and the Decolonization of Economics, INET July 2023
A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development Book Launch, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, March 2023
Bringing Structural Analysis Back in a World of Pessimism, May 2022
Dependency theory and heterodox economics (in Spanish), April 2022
How to curate a course, YSI Early Career Days, November 2021
Transnational companies and global value chains – a dialogue between Cristina Reis and Ingrid Kvangraven, NEEDDS – UFABC, November 2021
Decolonising Economics: Theory and Practice, Spot on Economies Research Forum, October 2021
Diversifying the Economics Curriculum, UCL, October 2021
Decolonizing Economics, The New School, October 2021
Fireside Chat on Economic Realities, Rethinking Economics India, September 2021
Economics’ Meeting with the Decolonizing Agenda, EAEPE Semi-Plenary, September 2021
Contemporary Dependencies: Finance and Imperialism in Senegal and Ghana, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, April 2021
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (discussant), Seminar Marxist Theory, March 2021
The Problem with Economics. The New School, March 2021
Decolonising Economics: What is it and how does it matter for Development Economics? Oxford Economics Society, February 2021
Decolonising Economics: A Guide to Theory and Practice. American Economic Association, January 2021
On Development Economics with Rethinking Economics Denmark, 2021
I did an interview on the field of development economics for the Danish branch of Rethinking Economics. Read the full interview here.
On the work of Samir Amin with the A Correction podcast, October 2021.
The A Correction podcast interviewed me on the life and work of Samir Amin. Listen here.
Interview in book on Global Inequality, 2020
Key Questions on Global Inequality is an interview series which asks public intellectuals from all over the world five key questions about global inequality. It asks about their personal background, the places they have worked and lived, and how these have shaped their views on global inequality. It also asks some of the big questions of our age: what is global inequality, what causes it, and how to deal with it? Here is the interview they did with me: Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven: The Need to Centre Imperialism in Our Study of Global Inequality.
Crash Course on Dependency Theory, October 2020
Podcast interview with Dan Banik on In Pursuit of Development, August 2020
I had the pleasure of being a guest on Prof. Dan Banik’s podcast In Pursuit of Development. Listen to it and read more about it here.
Decolonising Economics: What does it mean and how is it done? Bristol Festival of Ideas, November 2020
Read more here.
A New International Development Paradigm. Online Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics, August 2020
Why so Hostile? Busting Myths about Heterodox Economics. Rethinking Economics, May 2020
Interview with Norwegian newspaper on international development and dependency theory, 2020
The Norwegian magazine on international development, Bistandsaktuelt, interviewed me about dependency theory and its relevance for understanding international development problems today. Read the interview here.
Podcast interview with Women in Science on diversifying and decolonising economics, 2020
On February 27th 2020, the “Women in Science” project invited me to talk about diversifying and decolonising economics. This was a part of the Great Speaker Series campaign in Portugal in partnership with the British-born co-working space Second Home Lisbon. I outline how D-Econ came to be, how I came to be interested in heterodox economics, and why and how the missions of diversifying and decolonising economics are so essential. Listen to the podcast here or by pressing the play button below.
Podcast interview with Boblen on Microfinance and Trade, 2020
In April 2020, I was interviewed for two episodes of the brilliant Danish Economics podcast Boblen. One episode was on microfinance and the other on trade.
Globalization and the meaning of economic sovereignty. MES Africa, November 2019
I present on “Financialization on the African continent: Partly Financializing, Fully Subordinate?” (from 18:22) in this panel with Harry Cross, Tony Obeng and Okoli Chukwuma, in Tunis, Tunisia. My presentation is based on this paper.
Keynote on the political economy of the SDGs. Rio de Janeiro, March 2019
Podcast interview with A Correction on the experimental turn in Development Economics, 2019
I speak with Lev Moscow about the Nobel Prize in Economics (and what it says about the state of the economics profession). A Correction is a podcast that is directed towards high school teachers and students, based in New York City. Listen to the podcast here.
Podcast interview on Doug Henwood’s LBO news, 2019
I appear on Doug Henwood’s political economy radio show, the LBO news. He picked my brain about the recent developments in the field of development economics and the work of Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer, in particular. This is a one-hour episode, with René Rojas being interviewed by the political demonstrations in Chile in the first half, and me being interviewed in the second half. You can download the podcast here or listen to it by pressing the play button below.
Presentation on changes in measurement of GDP (on a panel with Desmond McNeill and Morten Jerven) (in Norwegian). Oslo, February 2019
On researching and changing Economics, 2017
The New School Research Matters platform interviewed Ebba Boye and I on our research and advocacy efforts.
Podcast interview on responsible finance, 2016
Here I’m interviewed by Debt Justice Norway on international finance and the UNCTAD Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing (on which I once wrote a report). This is in Norwegian.
Interview about The New School student trusteeship, 2016
Article by The New School Free Press on The New School bringing students on to the Board of Trustees. Read more.
On global development goals, 2016
Here I am interviewed by the Norwegian magazine, Gjeldsbrevet, about the purpose of global goals and the impacts of the Millennium Development Goals. Gjeldsbrevet is a bi-annual magazine produced by the Debt Justice Network, Norway. Read the article here (in Norwegian).
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