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Raúl Prebisch
1901 – 1986Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.
Argentina·Political Economy · Economics
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.
United Kingdom·Economics · Political Economy
Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972Led Ghana to independence and theorised neo-colonial economic dependence.
Ghana·Politics · Political Economy
Ha-Joon Chang
b. 1963Kicking Away the Ladder documented how rich states industrialised behind protection.
South Korea·Political Economy · Economics
Mariana Mazzucato
b. 1968The Entrepreneurial State reframed public investment as the source of major innovation.
Italy·Economics · Political Economy
Thomas Piketty
b. 1971Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.
France·Economics · Political Economy