Andreas Bergh is associate professor in Economics at Lund university and fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm.

His research concerns the welfare state, institutions, development, globalization, trust and social norms.

He has published in journals such as European Economic Review, World Development, European Sociological Review and Public Choice. He is the author of 'Sweden and the revival of the capitalist welfare state" (Edward Elgar, 2014).

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New development economics?

Boken t v bygger på en konferens, med artiklar i pdf som finns här. Intressant är titeln på Dani Rodriks text:

The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, But How Shall We Learn?

Menar Rodrik att Development Economics nu går in i en ny fas, likt growth theory med Barro och Romer blev new growth theory? Han diskuterar den experimenrtella trenden inom utvecklingsekonomin krtiskt och konstruktivt.

Bidraget av Banerjee är underhållande på ett annat sätt. Så här diskuterar han sambandet mellan  growth & poverty reduction:

 

What the cross-country evidence does seem to show ... is that there is no evidence for a trade-off between growth and poverty reduction. ... This is certainly a useful correlation to know, especially given the amount of sententious rubbish that gets written justifying bad macroeconomic policies in the name of poverty reduction.
Efter att ha slagit fast denna korrelation diskuteras orsaksförhållandet utan att Banerjee sätter ner foten. Men följande verkar troligt:
growth that is not accompanied by substantial poverty reduction is unsustainable (for political or other reasons) and therefore the episodes of sustained growth that we observe in the data are actually exactly the episodes where growth came with poverty reduction. In the relevant sense therefore, it is poverty reduction that determines growth and not the other way around.

Notera även den helt nystartade Berkely-tidskriften Journal of Globalization and Development med både Rodrik och Stiglitz som redaktörer.

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Vi planerar en konferens med Banherjee i Stockholm den 5 februari. Håll ögonen öppna.

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