This is not a real review; rather this is a homage to two great, but very different books, written 20 years apart: Walter Rodney’s How West Underdeveloped Africa published in 1972 and Paul Bairoc
Tag: African growth
Jervin and Rodrik: Lessons for Africa
This is a review of two books published in the past 3 years, Morten Jerven’s Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015), Dani Rodrik’s Economics Rules (2017). Jerven focuses on Africa whereas R