Ragnar Nurkse’s writings on economic development and on the problems of finance are as relevant today as they were when he wrote. This conference will discuss Nurkse’s work also in relationship to his contemporaries in development economics, and the common elements of development economics...

The twentieth century has witnessed a multitude of attempts in different national settings to constrain consumption with a view to the fulfilment of a variety of different economic agendas. Usually this has happened in response to a perceived state of crisis such as that brought about by the...