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Jan Tinbergen’s Fallacy: Economic Expertise as an A-Political Endeavour
Full text linkAs part of a book symposium on Erwin Dekker's Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021), Michele Alacevich reflects on Tinbergen's vision of economic expertise as a-political
Disuguaglianza, Democrazia e Globalizzazione
Full text linkMichele Alacevich e Anna Soci, riprendendo i temi trattati nel loro libro, Breve storia della disuguaglianza, si concentrano su due tra i vari problemi connessi alla disuguaglianza: la sfida alla democrazia e gli squilibri globali messi in atto dalla disuguaglianza economica. I due autori sostengono che la riflessione sulla democrazia sia fondamentale per capire le dinamiche della disuguaglianza interna alle nazioni, così come l’analisi degli squilibri globali è cruciale per comprendere le forme della disuguaglianza internazionale
Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography
No full textIn this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Hirschman’s characteristic approach to social-scientific questions. He traces the many strands of Hirschman’s thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their limitations as well as their strengths. Alacevich puts Hirschman’s ideas into context, following his participation in the major intellectual and political debates of his times. He examines Hirschman’s pioneering work in development studies and his analyses of social change, the history of capitalism, and the workings of democracy alongside his activities in the postwar reconstruction of Europe and economic development in Latin America. A compelling intellectual portrait of a profoundly distinctive thinker, this book also reflects on Hirschman’s legacy and lasting influence
The Changing Meaning of Development: SID's first decades
No full textMichele Alacevich presents a brief history of the development through the perspective of the Society for International Development (SID). He highlights some of the key ideas promoted by leading development thinkers and practitioners who contributed to SID and its journal in the first decades. Development (2007) 50, 59–65. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100386
Review of Alexandre M. Cunha and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, eds., Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 1–xix, 434, $159.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978303041040
Full text linkThe Birth of Development Economics: Theories and Institutions
Full text linkThis article describes the birth and early trajectory of development economics during the 1950s. It shows the European origins of many core concepts of development economics and how they acquired global currency. The article also discusses the links between the birth of the new disciplinary field of development economics and the hegemonic shift between Britain and the United States in the central decades of the twentieth century. Finally, it describes the crisis of the discipline between the 1960s and 1970s
Review of Mats Lundahl, The dynamics of poverty. Circular, cumulative causation, value judgments, institutions and social engineering in the world of Gunnar Myrdal, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Full text linkDevelopment and education: the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation and postwar development discourse
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