The article examines prospects for policy to enhance contemporary economic development. Shortcomings of mainstream economic analyses are evident since the Cold War, with failure to establish policy doctrines engaging with developing countries' structural transformation: on average, not...

The paper discusses the possible origins of what appears to be a striking example of confirmation bias in mainstream economics: the issue of industrialisation - why there has been general ignorance, so the data shows, of the observable main characteristic of structural change in developing...