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Introduction
Basic Facts of Growth and Development
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The Importance of Institutions (Brief)
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Geography and Development 1
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Very Long Run
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How Persistent is Prosperity? (Optional)
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Geography and Development, Trade
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Geography and Development, Disease
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Food and Agricultural Productivity
Why Agriculture is Important
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Industry Builds on Agriculture
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Green Revolution
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Micronutrients
Productivity Decline
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GMOs
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Land reform in India
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Sharecropping
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China’s agricultural reforms
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Fertilizer, roads, and Africa
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Garlic (Optional)
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A tomato border crossing (Optional)
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Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional)
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Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional)
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The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional)
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The Soy Boom (Optional)
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Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional)
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The Clove Monopoly (Optional)
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Watermelon scale economies (Optional)
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Water Economics
Economic import of water
Water markets and ethics
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Water and monopoly
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Privatizing urban water
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Water privatization in Buenos Aires
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Cochabamba water privatization
Problems with water privatization
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Water and asymmetric information
Water supply and demand
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Water and common pool problems
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Ground water in Yemen
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Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia
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Water and dams
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Virtual water
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Water Policies for People, by David Zetland (Optional)

Geography and Development 2
The Reversal of Fortune
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The Effect of Geography on Institutions
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Adam Smith (Optional)
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Jeffrey Sachs (Optional)
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Economic Growth 1
Trust and economic growth
The Solow Model (Brief, no math)
The Middle Income Trap
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Rule of 70
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Premature Deindustrialization
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When in India, Get a Haircut
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GDP and PPP
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Economic Growth 2
The Solow Model 1 – Introduction
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The Solow Model 2 – Comparative Statics
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The Solow Model 3 – Taking the Model to Data
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The Solow Model 4 – Productivity
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Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods
Double Marginalization Problem
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O-Ring model
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Paul Romer (Optional)
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Productivity of firms
Productivity in firms
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Productivity and firm size
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Two myths about multinationals
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Calculation of profit and loss
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Industrial policy: theory
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Industrial policy: evidence
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Conditional convergence
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Local monopoly power
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Trade
Comparative Advantage
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Comparative Advantage 2 Homework
Sources of Comparative Advantage
Development and Trade: Empirical Evidence
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Trade and Tariff History
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Trade and Poverty in India
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Does “Fair Trade” Help?
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World Trade Organization

Property Rights
Property Rights 1: Private v. Collective
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Property Rights 2: Titling
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Property Rights 3: Communal Property, Enclosure and the State
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Hernando de Soto (Optional)
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Corruption
Corruption and Growth
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Corruption and Tech Transfer
Corruption with Cash Transfers
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Corruption: Who Pays and How Much
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Corruption, Rent Seeking and Multiple Equilibria
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Corruption With and Without Theft
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Tullock Paradox
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Causes of Corruption
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Gender and Corruption
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Corruption and Output Composition
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Corruption, Justice, and Development
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IPaidaBribe.com
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
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Corruption Indices
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Corruption and Parking Tickets
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Indian Drivers
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Anne Krueger
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Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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How to Fight Corruption
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Corruption and Public Sector Wages
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Foreign aid
Recipients and Donors: Basic Facts
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Does Foreign Aid Increase Growth?
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Knowledge Problems and Incentive Problems
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Examples of Aid that Works
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The World Bank
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The IMF
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Millennium Villages Project
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Finance, Growth and the Poor
Finance and Growth
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Finance Law and Trust (Mexico)
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Introduction to Microfinance (Portfolios of the Poor)
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Why Microcredit?
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Why Microsavings?
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ROSCAs and Chit Funds
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Microcredit Evidence
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Robert Townsend
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Poverty and Behavior
Earning Money
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Spending Money
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Are the Poor Overwhelmed?
Poverty and Attention
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Conditional Cash Transfers
AmartyaSen #1 on Capabilities
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AmartyaSen #2 “Missing Women”
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“The Other Path”
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Edward Banfield
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Child Labor
Bonded Labor

Health
Randomized Controlled Trials, Part One
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Randomized Controlled Trials, Part Two
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Private Health Insurance
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Cholera in Haiti
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Fighting Diarrhea
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What to do about HIV/AIDS?
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What to do about HIV/AIDS?
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Deworming
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Pricing Mosquito Nets
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Birth Weight and Cash Transfers
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Participation in Uganda
The Quality of Medical Advice
The Kerala Paradox
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Education
Education and Economic Growth
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Education in East Asia
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Education and Latin Growth
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Private Education in India
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Teacher Attendance
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Vouchers in Colombia
Colonial Education in India
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Parental Expectations from School
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Quantity vs. Quality of Children
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Thoughts on Education
Conditional Cash Transfers
Mobile phones and literacy
The Rise of Private Education in India
Testing for Cream Skimming in India

Politics, democracy, and war
Democracy and Reforms
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The Theory of the Median Voter
The Agenda Setter
Roving and Stationary Bandits
Democracy in the Arab World
African Borders and Conflict
Will China Democratize?
Is there a Natural Resource Curse?
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SenIII Democracy and Famines
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Migration
Basic Facts about Migration
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Wage Gains from Immigration
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Remittances
Is there a Brain Drain?
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Wage Effects in the U.S.
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Internal Chinese Migration
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Population and environment
Demographic Transitions
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Population and Economic Growth
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The Malthusian Argument
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The African Demographic Dividend
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Environmental Economics
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Temperature and Growth
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Case Studies
Skyscrapers and Slums: What's Driving Mumbai's Housing Crisis?
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Rent Control in Mumbai
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India
India’s early growth history
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East India Company
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Land taxation in early India
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The deindustrialization of India
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Education in colonial India
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Railroads and colonial India
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Gandhi and the Salt March
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Did British rule help India?
India since Independence
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India's toughest economic times
India’s growth inflection
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India’s reforms of the 1990s
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Trade and poverty in India
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Agriculture in India
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Green Revolution
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Land reform in India
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Food crises and India’s media
Power generation in India
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Foreign investment in India
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Competition from foreign retailers
When in India, Get a Haircut
Skyscrapers and Slums: What's Driving Mumbai's Housing Crisis?
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Rent Control in Mumbai
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No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
Bankruptcy law in India
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Labor market regulation
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India’s macroeconomic stability
Castes and groundwater trade
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India’s air and water pollution
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Mobility in the caste system
Lentils as incentive
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Corruption in driver’s licenses
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The Kerala Paradox
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The Rise of Private Education in India
Testing for Cream Skimming in India
Edward Luce on India
India business profiles
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Service sector growth
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Frugal innovation for the heart
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The value of English
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Female leadership in India
Cable TV and women
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The economics of Bollywood
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Amartya Sen #1
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Amartya Sen #2
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Amartya Sen #3
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Partha Dasgupta
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Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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People (References/Optional)
Guide to leading thinkers
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
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W. Arthur Lewis
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Raul Prebisch
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Bela Balassa
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Ragnar Nurkse
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Albert O. Hirschman
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Peter Bauer
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Adam Smith
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Joseph Schumpeter
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Alexander Gerschenkron
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Karl Polanyi
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Theodore Schultz
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Edward Banfield
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Paul Krugman
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Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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Anne Krueger
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Elinor Ostrom
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Partha Dasgupta
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Paul Romer
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William Easterly
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Jeffrey Sachs
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Joseph Stiglitz
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Robert Townsend
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Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
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Amartya Sen #1
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Amartya Sen #2
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Amartya Sen #3
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Paul Collier
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Dani Rodrik
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Daron Acemoglu
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Hernando de Soto
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Jeffrey Sachs | Conversations with Tyler
Dani Rodrik | Conversations with Tyler

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