Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires

Conversations with Tyler by Conversations with Tyler

Feb 18, 202653:24Society & Culture

When Tyler called Joe Studwell's How Asia Works "perhaps my favorite economics book of the year" back in 2013, he wasn't alone: it became one of the most influential treatments of industrial policy ever written. Now Stud...

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