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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven

@ingridharvold

Econ deveopment, finance, imperialism, decolonizing economics. Critique of political economy. Editor @CriticalDev, co-founder @DivDecEcon, managing @hetecon.

ingridhk.com

Joined September 2009

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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Aug 6, 2025
Nievas & Piketty's "Unequal exchange and North-South Relations” perpetuates deep structural problems with how economists deal with capitalism and empire. I expose the theoretical & methodological limitations of their work & outline what they fail to see.
Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange
From ineteconomics.org
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Oct 14, 2024
The economists who managed to incorporate colonialism into mainstream economic theory *without* challenging the underlying (Eurocentric) understanding of capitalism... Ofc will be rewarded by the Economics discipline.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 14, 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Nov 29, 2024
Things always become more clear when reading Marx. Here he argues that bourgeois culture produces its antithesis in the form of anti-industrial romanticism (that doesn't threaten capitalism as it's rooted in a past that never was). An early critique of decolonial theory!
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Jun 10, 2025
Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).
Thomas Piketty
@PikettyWIL
Jun 9, 2025
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @gatonievas [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Oct 19, 2024
Here is our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (with @SurbhiKesar & @devikadutt). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of economics. epw.in/journal/2024/4…
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Aug 12, 2022
Economists can learn from anthropologists. I mean it! And not in a "they provide valuable context for our research" kind of way. Anthro can help us understand financial processes & structures of oppression. Anthro can help us theorise. Some resources & anthros to follow👇
Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Jun 11, 2025
Colonialism was violent & led to immense econ inequalities. Good this is recognized. But it needs to be understood within a broader theory of (the uneven development of) capitalism. There is no 'counterfactual' world where capitalism leads to equality, evenness & convergence 🫠
Thomas Piketty
@PikettyWIL
Jun 9, 2025
Replying to @PikettyWIL
With fairer commodity prices, poorer countries would have had surpluses to invest in infrastructures, education & health. If rich countries had absorbed the cost through reduced elite consumption, we could have reached near-complete productivity convergence between North and
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Oct 14, 2019
A prize to be expected. Banerjee, Duflo & Kremer rely on key tenets of mainstream Econ. While founded on behavioral econ and assumption that tweaks to individual actions can alleviate global poverty, their work is often wrongly presented as purely empirical, objective & radical.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 14, 2019
BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize
Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Jul 26, 2024
I am resigning from the @thirdworldq editorial board. After some time there and (futile) efforts to change things, I can see that the editorial processes do not ensure the necessary oversight and deliberation to prevent biases against radical & towards Eurocentric scholarship.
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Oct 6, 2023
Hey friends! @devikadutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @cacrisalves and @SurbhiKesar). In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊 ingridhk.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/6yyd00…
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Jun 5, 2020
It still blows my mind that the UK school curriculum doesn't systematically cover Britain's colonial and imperial history (!). It's worth revisiting this piece by @MayaGoodfellow.
Put Britain’s colonial history on the curriculum – then we’ll know who we really are | Maya...
From theguardian.com
Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Nov 1, 2025
Excited about my weekend reading 🤓 @patrickmokre
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Jun 10, 2025
Except without the theory 😛
Alessandra Mezzadri
@FeministOnMarx
Jun 9, 2025
Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)
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Ingrid H. Kvangraven
@ingridharvold
Nov 10, 2022
Our paper on decolonizing economics teaching is finally out! @SurbhiKesar & I surveyed 498 economists to evaluate possibilities and challenges associated with efforts to decolonize economics. As you may imagine, the results are not super encouraging...🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…