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Devika Dutt

@devikadutt.bsky.social
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Political Economy, Finance, Development, and related things

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a very useful and high level conversation @clintballinger.bsky.social dug out from twitter between @devikadutt.bsky.social and I
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Shame. Shame. Shame.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW: Is decolonising economics an impossible task? Decolonizing Economics by @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @iipp-ucl.bsky.social & @surbhikesar.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social reviewed 👇
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Is decolonising economics an impossible task? - LSE Review of Books
Decolonizing Economics by Dutt, Alves, Kesar and Harvold Kvangraven traces the discipline’s Eurocentric history & ties to racial capitalism, & argues for reform
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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Here are four of the books we recommend in our new podcast. Two that look at Prebisch, one that deals with the 'infant industry' argument & one that looks at ideas. #EconSky @cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
King's College London recently announced the acquisition of Cranfield University. We talked to the Times Higher Ed about it and what it says about the HE sector: t.co/2ZZnsXlz1S
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Check out this blog post about my recent article in EJDR, based on our recent book, Decolonising Economics with @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and @ingridhk.bsky.social
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Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA) @iipp-sea.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/06/2025
This is really good news for Thames Water customers. Predatory KKR was so bad they were nicknamed "Barbarians at the gate" in the US. It is time the government stopped dithering and took Thames Water into public ownership. It's what 82% of the public wants.
Screenshot of a media headline saying "Thames Water nationalisation back in play as US partner KKR walks away", over a photo of a Thames Water van.
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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds. Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Our book is out and available for purchase in the U.K. Writing this book with @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social was a long and arduous process that has arguably changed us all, and we’d be honoured for y’all to read it!
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing. See more: www.politybooks.com/...
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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It’s here! And I’m buying a second copy for my world bank economist husband 😀@surbhikesar.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social
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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our book is now available to order! We will be organising some book talks in the upcoming academic year to discuss these embryonic ideas on decolonising economics. @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think. @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Join us in London on 18 May (Tomorrow!!!) for “Energy, Extractivism & Empire” — a political day school to strategise for energy justice and Palestinian liberation. Register now  outsavvy.com/event/26792/en… #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #WorkersInPalestine
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Energy, Extractivism and Empire Tickets - London - OutSavvy
**NOTE: Date change due to National Palestine Protest to commemorate 77 years since the Nakba. We encourage those who can to attend the protest. Our event will be the following day. On 18th May 2025...
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New article: How is the dominant approach to mining in the Econ discipline Eurocentric? What would an alternative non-Eurocentric framework look like and how does it change our understanding of mining? Tracing one mine, I try to answer these questions👇🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Looking forward to this event today w/ @surbhikesar.bsky.social! W/ @ingridhk.bsky.social & @devikadutt.bsky.social, Surbhi wrote this amazing piece on AJR's "Nobel" prize & the colonial origins of economics last year. We'll explore its relevance to consulting practices ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Looking forward to speaking today on how AJR - & the development theory & practice today - remains firmly w/in Eurocentric tenets. Based on recent commentary W/ @ingridhk.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social I’ll be in conversation w/ @rosiecollington.bsky.social, who will speak about the Big Con!
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NEON @neonuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If you want to use broadcast media to amplify your campaigns for progressive social change, then apply for this! We provide a high-calibre training and then follow up with a hands on pitching service that gets people on TV and radio on a day-to day basis www.neweconomyorganisers.org/work/support...
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Excited to be a part of the discussion of Nick Bernard’s new book: Fictions of Financialization in SOAS tomorrow! Event details: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My new ✨ open access ✨ article “No Development (Economics or Studies) without Decolonisation” in the EJDR special issue on the Future of Development Studies is out now! It is based on some of the arguments in our forthcoming book “Decolonising Economics” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation - The European Journal of Development Research
The decolonisation of development studies and knowledge in general has become a very popular conversation. However, the idea of decolonisation is rather ill-defined in academia, with a variety of argu...
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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation” Open access article by @devikadutt.bsky.social in our journal, the EJDR link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation - The European Journal of Development Research
The decolonisation of development studies and knowledge in general has become a very popular conversation. However, the idea of decolonisation is rather ill-defined in academia, with a variety of argu...
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEON does amazing work getting progressive folks in the new economy space in the media in the UK and they are hiring!
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Ceasefire is the bare minimum. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and hold every war criminal to account.
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Spoke to @goldbergradio.bsky.social about the rise in government borrowing costs and what that means! 😊
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments. projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 04/12/2024
More horror. The moment the 🇮🇱 IDF targeted the tents of displaced families in an area it had labeled as "safe" in the al-Mawasi area of #KhanYounis , southern #Gaza Strip. Over 20 Palestinians have been killed so far, mostly children.
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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Have you registered for our event 'Beyond the Dollar: Changing Money and Payments for Economic and Climate Justice' on 11th December? We've got an incredible line-up of expert speakers: 👇 🧵
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Beyond the Dollar
Changing Money and Payments for Economic and Climate Justice - join us to discuss Positive Money's new report
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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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TJ @tjdurrant.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sharing this starter pack for anyone who hasn't seen it (Palestinian organizations, academics, commentators, journalists)
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The first co-hosted event of the newly formed KCL Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective is now being introduced by @devikadutt.bsky.social! Adam Hanieh launching his new book at the Dept of International Development.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Next Wednesday (Nov 27):Join us for the 4th seminar in the Interrogating Development seminar series, this time with the KCL Global Capitalism Studies Network, w/ Adam Hanieh to discuss his new book “Crude Capitalism.” The event is open to all but registration is reqd www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Poster for the Interrogating Development Seminar with Adam Hanieh, with a link to register https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-on-crude-capitalism-oil-corporate-power-and-the-making-of-the-world-market-with-adam-hanieh
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
NEW 🇲🇦🇵🇸 Moroccan dockworkers in the port of Tangiers have refused to load the NYSTED MAERSK after the vessel was found to have received at least 46 US military shipments for Israel during the genocide in Gaza, following an investigation by the PI and the Palestinian Youth Movement.
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our (@ingridhk.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and my) commentary “The Colonial Origins of Economics” on the 2024 the Economics ‘Nobel’ has been translated into Persian! Incredibly honoured and blown away. Thank you, Ali Abbaszadeh 😀
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ریشه‌های استعماری علم اقتصاد / اینگرید هارولد کانگراون و… / ترجمه‌ی علی عباس‌زاده
نقد کتاب «چرا ملت‌ها شکست می‌خورند؟»: ____________ سیاست‌زدایی از توسعه برای دورکردن توجه ما از نیروهای ساختاری و خشونت‌آمیزی که از انباشت سرمایه حمایت می‌کنند، به تقویت دیدگاه اروپامحورِ توسعه منج…
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A bookstore has opened next to my gym. This is sooo good for my mental health but really bad for my bank account 🥲
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I wrote on Starmer’s “smash the gangs” slogan & the danger for Labour of learning the wrong lessons from Trump’s victory. “voters reached the obvious conclusion. If the border had to be sealed, & more spent on smashing smuggling gangs – Trump would do it better.” national.thelead.uk/p/people-smu...
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People smugglers aren’t terrorists, and “smashing the gangs” won’t work
On immigration, Labour seems poised to learn the wrong lessons from Trump’s victory - and make the far right more likely to win in the UK, too. But there's a different path.
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It’s absolutely fascinating to witness the meltdown amongst allegedly progressive econ policy wonks if you suggest that whipping up a simplistic nationalist narrative to justify public investment is maybe not such a good idea when we are dealing with the rise of the far right everywhere
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This Wednesday, join us for the third seminar in our Interrogating Development Seminar Series this term at King’s College London, with Isabelle Guérin about her new book, “The Indebted Woman”, feat. Katherine Brickell, Nithya Natarajan, Amby Karamchedu, and Majed Akhter www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Poster for book talk with Isabelle Guérin, with details for registration, available using this link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-on-the-indebted-woman-kinship-sexuality-and-capitalism-with-isabelle-guerin
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
ICYMI, check out this report on the role of the Development NGO sector in decolonising economic development, written by @ingridhk.bsky.social and @surbhikesar.bsky.social www.bond.org.uk/resources/de...
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Here's our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (w/ @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @devikadutt.bsky.social). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of Econ. www.epw.in/journal/2024...
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The Colonial Origins of Economics
By providing an easy and elegant “answer” to the complex process of development, albeit a wrong one, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson’s rise to prominence has lent support to a very pa...
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Here’s why @ingridhk.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and I think that the 2024 Economics ‘Nobel’ winning framework of understanding how institutions are formed and affect prosperity is Eurocentric, ahistorical, and wrong www.epw.in/journal/2024...
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 14/10/2024
Pity that all these nice critical economists that today have bashed AJR are not using much Bluesky (if at all), and I have to printscreen their takes in Muskland. @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social.
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Join us tomorrow for the 1st event of the term in our Interrogating Development seminar series w/ Shirin Rai about her new book “Depletion: the Human Cost of Caring,”also featuring Sara Stevano as discussant! The event is open to all, but registration is needed! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Our seminar in the King’s College London Department of International Development Interrogating Development seminar series with Hamza Hamouchene featured on The Syllabus! A great conversation based on this great new book (w/ Katie Sandwell). Highly recommend! Here’s the video: buff.ly/48d3A0h
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
As someone who never *really* understood statistics when I first learnt it, it was incredibly satisfying to hear from a student that he FINALLY understood key things like the Central Limit Theorem in my quant methods class 🥹🥹🥹
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
If you’re in London, come to our Interrogating Development Seminar Series with Angus McNelly today on his new book: “Now we are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in 21st Century Bolivia” at 16.30! Wine reception will follow the seminar! :) www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
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Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
One our (@ingridhk.bsky.social and my) students asked us today, what came of the RCTs that caused scandal & uproar due to problematic ethics? Turns out 2 out of 3 of the examples we considered are now published in the QJE, a Top 5 Econ journal🫠 so much for accountability and change
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