"There are many ways in which such Eurocentric assumptions are embedded in the way basic ideas are approached in economics, like financial inclusion, debt crises, women’s empowerment, or labour productivity."
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a political economist unafraid to take on the orthodoxies of her discipline. A Senior Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London, Kvangraven brings together development economics, global political economy, and economic history to challenge the Eurocentric assumptions underpinning mainstream economic thinking. A key advocate for rethinking ‘dependency theory’ as a vital research program, her work reframes global inequality not as an anomaly in the system, but as its inherent logic.
Co-author of Decolonising Economics – An Introduction, and a founding editor of Developing Economics, a platform that makes heterodox and radical scholarship accessible to wider audiences. With initiatives like Diversifying and Decolonising Economics and her podcast Hierarchies of Development, Kvangraven is reshaping the academic landscape and who gets to define economic expertise.
