Trevor Chow
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Economic growth is the defining feature of modern civilisation, and the fact that it isn’t uniformly distributed across the globe is one of the greatest tragedies. Unsurprisingly, my childhood bookshelf was filled with books about growth and development. Each had its own unique angle and approach. While Diamond and Mokyr fought over the big history questions of geography vs culture, Easterly and Collier looked at how aid interacted with the local political economy, and Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson honed in on the role of institutions. Meanwhile, Duflo and Banerjee built the new empirical…
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