This paper is part of a larger project aiming at revitalizing high development theory". It examines the roots of development economics, tracing it back to the seminal contributions of European émigrés to the UK and the US in the 1930s. Developed mainly by German speaking economists it became...

The paper is part of a larger project aimed at revitalizing what Paul Krugman has called "high development theory." It examines the roots of development economics, focusing on the seminal contributions of Europeans who emigrated to the UK and the United States in the 1930s. That body of theory...