Lol I spent last week in class deconstructing how their take on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity is Eurocentric, ahistorical, and wrong 💅🏽 😂

The work by today's winners of the Nobel Prize in economics has been challenged by scholars like Yuen Yuen Ang, Mushtaq Khan, and Ha-Joon Chang. Read them! Then you will understand that enforcing the North's capitalist institutions in the South does not lead to development.

But is it economics? Congratulations to my colleagues—especially James, who describes himself as a “recovering economist”. He taught me my first political economy of development class 21y ago, then became my colleague when he recruited me to Harris Policy and The Pearson Institute 8y

When it comes to Africa, their work is ahistorical (misinterpretation) that doesn't acknowledge previous studies on the issue with a differnt view such as Samir Amin, Mohammed Mamdani Thandika Makandwire, Archie Mafeje, among other. Agree wt@haugejostein point abt North's inst'n

The prize to Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) reminded me of a 2016 piece I wrote for Africa Is a Country calling out AJR’s sloppy theoretical reasoning behind their empirical work on institutions. My Africa Is a Country piece was a review of Morten Jerven’s Africa: Why Economists

Evidence, if you ever needed it, of mainstream economics' breadth without depth. Colonial institutions extracted value and wealth from the Global South, forming the basis of Global North prosperity. This work depoliticises the historical process of decolonisation and distorts

Call for papers for International Conference "The Legal Distinction between Persons and Things: Changing Perspectives," Jul 7-8, 2025, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Conference language is English. Apply by Dec 15, 2024. drive.google.com/file/d/1nth7xX…

AJR 2001 gets a lot of attention, but their thinking has considerably evolved. The dynamic trio now examine connections with religion, ideological persuasion & prestige bias My history of AJR’s big contributions 👇 ggd.world/p/congratulati…

Full article: Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Tomorrow....Seminar with Florence Okoye appliedafricansf.com/2024/10/09/lau…

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Call for short stories by Jan 31, 2025 for an anthology from Posthuman Press. Theme: Posthuman Entanglement(s) & Co-Existence. "We need stories as a creative practice to help foster posthuman ethics for a more inclusive and pluralistic present and future" posthumanpress.com/pages/antholog…

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Kalundi Serumaga interrogates the usefulness of the terms ‘workers’ and ‘working class’ outside of Western industrial society, & reflects on how the oral history method might be one way to better understand the exploited & oppressed in their own words. roape.net/2024/12/05/tal…

2/5 Research Fellows [X2] will join us in early 2025 to lead on these themes. We have a project team n partners spread across 4 continents supported by Advisory Board with expertise in the fields of AI, critical data studies, production networks n science and technology studies.

New essay by me – I argue that the best way to understand artificial intelligence is via the Tinkerbell Effect. This technology's existence requires us to keep channeling our psychic energy into the dreams of mega-corporations, tech billionaires, and venture capitalists.

Call for Papers – You Are Here: poetic gestures and creative ecologies from the garden. Submit abstracts by May 16, 2025. 1-day conference to be held in Montpellier, France Oct 17, 2025. ualk.ff.cuni.cz/2025/02/21/cal…

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BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)