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Working Papers

2018

1. Smart Specialization: theory and brief case studies
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2017

2. 80 Economic Bestsellers before 1850: A Fresh Look at the History of Economic Thought
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)
3. Towards a better understanding of convergence and divergence: or, how the present EU strategy –– at the expense of the economic periphery –– neglects the theories that once made Europe successful
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (5)

2016

4. The Future of Economic Development between Utopias and Dystopias
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2014

5. German Language Economic Bestsellers before 1850, with two chapters on a common reference point of Cameralism and Mercantilism
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (3)

2013

6. Civilizing capitalism: “good” and “bad” greed from the enlightenment to Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
7. Failed and Asymmetrical Integration: Eastern Europe and the Non-financial Origins of the European Crisis
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance
8. Jacob Bielfeld's ''On the ''Decline of States''(1760) and its Relevance for Today
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance
   See also Chapter Jacob Bielfeld’s “On the Decline of States” (1760) and Its Relevance for Today, The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, Springer (2015) (2015)
9. Primitivization of the EU Periphery: The Loss of Relevant Knowledge
   The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (2)

2012

10. Economics and the Public Sphere
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)
11. Mechanisms of Financial Crises in Growth and Collapse: Hammurabi, Schumpeter, Perez, and Minsky
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Mechanisms of Financial Crises in Growth and Collapse: Hammurabi, Schumpeter, Perez, and Minsky, Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2012) (2012)
12. Neo-classical economics: A trail of economic destruction since the 1970s
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (7)

2011

13. Production Capitalism vs Financial Capitalism - Symbiosis and Parasitism. An Evolutionary Perspective and Bibliography
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (2)
14. Zeitgeist in Transition: An Update to How rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2010

15. Developmentalism
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)
16. Modernizing Russia: Round III. Russia and the other BRIC countries: forging ahead, catching up or falling behind?
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (2)

2009

17. Capitalist Dynamics: A Technical Note
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance
18. Emulation versus Comparative Advantage: Competing and Complementary Principles in the History of Economic Policy
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (23)
19. Financial Crises, Persistent Poverty, and the Terrible Simplifiers in Economics: A Turning Point Towards a New '1848 Moment'
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)
20. Industrial Restructuring and Innovation Policy in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (9)
21. The Economics of Failed, Failing, and Fragile States: Productive Structure as the Missing Link
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (5)
22. The Relevance of Ragnar Nurkse and Classical Development Economics
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (7)
23. The Terrible Simplifers: Common Origins of Financial Crises and Persistent Poverty in Economic Theory and the new ‘1848 Moment’
    Working Papers, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs View citations (2)

2008

24. Adapting to Climate Change in Reindeer Herding: The Nation-State as Problem and Solution
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (1)

2007

25. European Eastern Enlargement as Europe's Attempted Economic Suicide?
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (8)

2006

26. Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development to Prevent ‘Welfare Colonialism’
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (2006) View citations (9)
27. European Integration, Innovations and Uneven Economic Growth: Challenges and Problems of EU 2005
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (4)
28. Evolutionary Economics, Classical Development Economics, and the History of Economic Policy: A Plea for Theorizing by Inclusion
    The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance View citations (4)
29. Institutionalism Ancient, Old and New: A Historical Perspective on Institutions and Uneven Development
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (2)
30. The Economics of Reindeer Herding: Saami Entrepreneurship between Cyclical Sustainability and the Powers of State and Oligopolies
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)

2005

31. IT-Fornebu – næringspolitikk og skiftende virkelighetsforståelse
    (IT-Fornebu – Industrial policy and shifting conceptions of reality)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2004

32. How rich nations got rich. Essays in the history of economic policy
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (6)
33. The Qualitative Shift in European Integration: Towards permanent wage pressures and a ‘Latin-Americanization’ of Europe?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (8)

2002

34. Reinkjøtt: Natur, Politikk, Makt og Marked
    (Reindeer Meat: Nature, Politics, Power, and Markets)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

1999

35. Regionale strategier i kunnskapssamfunnet
    (Regional strategies in the knowledge-based society)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

1997

36. Det tekno-økonomiske paradigmeskiftet. Konsekvenser for norske distrikts- og ressurbaserte næringer
    (The Techno-Economic Paradigm Shift: Consequences for Norwegian regional and resource-based industries)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

1994

37. A Schumpeterian theory of underdevelopment – a contradiction in terms?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in STEP Report series, The STEP Group, Studies in technology, innovation and economic policy View citations (3)
38. Competitiveness and its predecessors - a 500-year cross-national perspective
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (6)
    Also in STEP Report series, The STEP Group, Studies in technology, innovation and economic policy View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article Competitiveness and its predecessors--a 500-year cross-national perspective, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier (1995) View citations (51) (1995)
39. Hvorfor er økonomisk vekst geografisk ujevnt fordelt?
    (Why is economic growth unevenly distributed geographically?)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in STEP Report series, The STEP Group, Studies in technology, innovation and economic policy
40. Recent trends in economic theory – implications for development geography
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in STEP Report series, The STEP Group, Studies in technology, innovation and economic policy
41. Tjenestesektoren i det økonomiske helhetsbildet
    (The Service Sector and the Economy as a Whole)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in STEP Report series, The STEP Group, Studies in technology, innovation and economic policy

Journal Articles

2021

1. The opening of Central and Eastern European countries to free trade: A critical assessment
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, 58, (C), 23-34 View citations (1)

2020

2. Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto
   Nature, 2020, 582, (7813), 482-484 View citations (27)

2018

3. 33 Economic Bestsellers published before 1750
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2018, 25, (6), 1206-1263

2012

4. Mechanisms of Financial Crises in Growth and Collapse: Hammurabi, Schumpeter, Perez, and Minsky
   Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 2012, 46, (1), 85-100
   See also Working Paper Mechanisms of Financial Crises in Growth and Collapse: Hammurabi, Schumpeter, Perez, and Minsky, The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics (2012) View citations (3) (2012)

2011

5. The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it - By Paul Collier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 224. Paperback £9.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-537338-7
   Journal of Global History, 2011, 6, (1), 156-158

2009

6. Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium - By Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi + 619. Hardback £28.95, ISBN 978-0-691-11854-3; paperback £20.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14327-9
   Journal of Global History, 2009, 4, (3), 512-514

2007

7. Towards an Austro–German theory of uneven economic development? A plea for theorising by inclusion
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2007, 20, (2), 155-170

2005

8. A Brief Introduction to Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (1626–1692)
   European Journal of Law and Economics, 2005, 19, (3), 221-230

2002

9. SCHUMPETER IN THE CONTEXT OF TWO CANONS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
   Industry and Innovation, 2002, 9, (1-2), 23-39 View citations (10)

2000

10. Full circle: economics from scholasticism through innovation and back into mathematical scholasticism
    Journal of Economic Studies, 2000, 27, (4/5), 364-376

1999

11. The role of the state in economic growth
    Journal of Economic Studies, 1999, 26, (4/5), 268-326 View citations (6)

1997

12. Exploring the Genesis of Economic Innovations: The Religious Gestalt-Switch and the Duty to Invent as Preconditions for Economic Growth
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 1997, 4, (2), 233-283 View citations (8)

1995

13. Competitiveness and its predecessors--a 500-year cross-national perspective
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1995, 6, (1), 23-42 View citations (51)
    See also Working Paper Competitiveness and its predecessors - a 500-year cross-national perspective, MPRA Paper (1994) View citations (6) (1994)

1978

14. PRESIDENT VELASCO'S THIRD WAY: A STRATEGY FOR CHANGE
    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 1978, 49, (2), 163-176

Edited books

2023

1. A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing

2016

2. Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (14)

2004

3. Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (40)

Chapters

2023

1. Altered states: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams
   Chapter 4 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 108-134
2. Free trade with the former COMECON countries as unequal exchange
   Chapter 12 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 255-276
3. Geography, uneven development and population density: attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development
   Chapter 2 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 46-70
4. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment?
   Chapter 9 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 200-217
5. Uneven economic development: identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics
   Chapter 1 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 19-45
6. When nations collapse: a note on Jacob Bielfelds On the Decline of States (1760)
   Chapter 11 in A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development, 2023, pp 238-254

2016

7. Antonio Serra and the Problems of Today
   Palgrave Macmillan
8. Cameralism and the German tradition of development economics
   Chapter 3 in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, pp 63-86
9. Classical development economists of the midtwentieth century
   Chapter 19 in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, pp 336-351
10. Epilogue: the future of economic development between utopias and dystopias
    Chapter 40 in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, pp 738-786
11. Giovanni Botero (1588) and Antonio Serra (1613): Italy and the birth of development economics
    Chapter 1 in Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, pp 3-41 View citations (1)

2015

12. Jacob Bielfeld’s “On the Decline of States” (1760) and Its Relevance for Today
    Springer
    See also Working Paper Jacob Bielfeld's ''On the ''Decline of States''(1760) and its Relevance for Today, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (2013) (2013)

2011

13. The Technological Dynamics of Capitalism: A Note on Antiphysiocracy, Colbertism, and 1848 Moments
    Springer

2009

14. A Bibliography of J.H.G. von Justi
    Springer
15. Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi - The Life and Times of an Economist Adventurer
    Springer View citations (1)

2006

16. An “All too Human” Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Frage, and the German Historical School of Economics
    Springer
17. Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter
    Springer View citations (17)

2004

18. Globalization in the Periphery as a Morganthau Plan: The Underdevelopment of Mongolia in the 1990s
    Chapter 6 in Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality, 2004 View citations (1)
19. The Other Canon: The History of Renaissance Economics
    Chapter 1 in Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality, 2004 View citations (6)

2003

20. Austrian economics and 'the other canon': the Austrians between the activistic-idealistic and the passivistic-materialistic traditions of economics
    Chapter 10 in Evolutionary Economic Thought, 2003 View citations (1)