This blog encourages critical perspectives on issues of economic development, broadly defined. Alternative approaches are welcome. Founded by @ingridharvold.

Joined July 2016
Developing Economics retweeted
New Post: The Soviet Planning Model by @cpc01: The Soviet development strategy was the principal factor explaining the consolidation of Socialism in One Country subject to capitalist encirclement and plagued by war.(Part of Series on Development Planning) developingeconomics.org/2026…
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New! Tribute to Peruvian Economist Oscar Ugarteche by Isabel Ortiz. Founder of Latin American Economic Observatory (OBELA),@latindadd, author of 28 books "he is every one of the young economists who learned from him to look the system straight in the eye" developingeconomics.org/2026…
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Developing Economics retweeted
Join us for IDEAs 2nd webinar series Reviving Central Planning: A view from the Global South. This time we will be looking at The Soviet Union model. The world's first comprehensive planning approach centering equal resource distribution. 🗓️ 3 August, 10:30 UTC 👉Register: Scan QR or visit go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp
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💻Webinar: National planning: The Soviet Union model 🗓️Schedule: 3 August, 10:30 UTC 👩🏻‍🏫Moderator: @farwasial 👨🏻‍🏫Discussants: Prabhat Patnaik and @cpc01 👉Register: Scan QR or visit go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp 📌This webinar is the second in the series "Reviving central planning: A Global South perspective", which aims to explore the basics of central planning as they existed around the world and understand the relevance of planned development today. The discussions will focus on the diverse cases of Russia, Eastern Europe, and East Asia to provide a historical analysis of their respective planning models, an assessment of the strengths and limitations of their implementation of these models, as well as an introduction to the rich analysis that emerged from the economic debates and ideas of economists on the idea of and the actual experience with planning.
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Developing Economics retweeted
NEW POST: What would it mean to envisionlabour-led urban development —rather than capital- or state-centred development? @DebolinaMaj and @MCollord offer collective reflections based on a recent workshop. And an invitation to join the conversation. developingeconomics.org/2026…
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Developing Economics retweeted
Webinar 1: Why Revisit National Planning. We start with a mention of Global South visionaries: Xue Muqiao,Mahalanobis,Ismail Sabri Abdalla, A. M. Babu,Pedro Vuskovic, Che Guevera & define the fundamentals of Planning with Professors Patnaik Chandrasekhar youtube.com/watch?v=zCt2ajJj…
New- First Post on the Series Reviving Central Planning. Prabhat Patnaik 'Deliberate intervention by the State is needed not only to overcome demand-constraints, as the Keynesians argue, but, to alter composition of demand in a socially equitable manner. developingeconomics.org/2026…
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New- First Post on the Series Reviving Central Planning. Prabhat Patnaik 'Deliberate intervention by the State is needed not only to overcome demand-constraints, as the Keynesians argue, but, to alter composition of demand in a socially equitable manner. developingeconomics.org/2026…
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Developing Economics retweeted
"Yet the dead do not disappear. This is perhaps what frightened ruling classes historically about communists, peasant movements, and national liberation struggles. The dead continue organizing the living."
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