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Lee Kuan Yew

1923 – 2015

Turned a port city into a high-income state — the developmental-state exemplar and its critics.

Singapore·Politics · Economics

Amartya Sen

b. 1933

Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.

India·Economics · PhilosophyNobel

Daniel Kahneman

1934 – 2024

Prospect theory founded behavioural economics and modern policy 'nudging'.

Israel·Economics · PsychologyNobel

Muhammad Yunus

b. 1940

Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.

Bangladesh·Economics · Business · PeaceNobelFull profile

Ha-Joon Chang

b. 1963

Kicking Away the Ladder documented how rich states industrialised behind protection.

South Korea·Political Economy · Economics

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