Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

Thomas Piketty's (2013) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

On the primacy of politics in development / Adrian Leftwich -- Towards a theory of developmental democracy / Richard L. Sklar -- Democracy and development / Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane -- Governance, democracy and development / Geoffrey Hawthorn and Paul Seabright -- Development, democracy...