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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
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Interview with economist Jayati Ghosh discussing the decolonisation of economics (course description page): The Open University

Figure 1: Graph created using data from The World Bank: GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$): World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files and The World Bank: Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (2017 PPP) (% of population) – World: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. These datasets are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Video 1: BBC Archive link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw-wK03TSw

Videos 2 and 3: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJrBR0lg6s&t=519s&ab_channel=OxfordSmithSchool

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