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This year’s Nobel prize exposes economics’ problem with colonialism

By Jostein Hauge, Assistant Professor in Development Studies, University of Cambridge

The 2024 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded for widely cited research on global inequality – but there are blind spots in this analysis.

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