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Who Said or What Said?: Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists (2023)
Journal Article
Javdani, M., & Chang, H.-J. (2023). Who Said or What Said?: Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 47(2), 309-339. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac071

There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there are very few studies that provide systematic empirical evidence on this critical issue. Using an online randomised controlled experiment in... Read More about Who Said or What Said?: Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists.

Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health. (2023)
Journal Article
Gilmore, A. B., Fabbri, A., Baum, F., Bertscher, A., Bondy, K., Chang, H.-J., Demaio, S., Erzse, A., Freudenberg, N., Friel, S., Hofman, K. J., Johns, P., Abdool Karim, S., Lacy-Nichols, J., de Carvalho, C. M. P., Marten, R., McKee, M., Petticrew, M., Robertson, L., Tangcharoensathien, V., & Thow, A. M. (2023). Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health. The Lancet, 401(10383), 1194-1213. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2823%2900013-2

Although commercial entities can contribute positively to health and society there is growing evidence that the products and practices of some commercial actors-notably the largest transnational corporations-are responsible for escalating rates of av... Read More about Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health..

The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive (2021)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Chang, H.-J., & Estevez, I. (2021). The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive. The European Journal of Development Research, 33, 179-205. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00356-y

In this paper we identify two missing dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach (HCA)—the collective and the productive—and in doing so we advance a ‘productionist’ perspective on development, centred around the idea of ‘collective productive cap... Read More about The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive.

Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries (2021)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Chang, H.-J., & Labrunie, M. (2021). Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries. The European Journal of Development Research, 33, 330-370. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00355-z

In this paper, we discuss the challenges and the opportunities faced by developing countries that want to join the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). We first point out that the current discourse on 4IR is often based on poor understanding... Read More about Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries.

Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (2020)
Journal Article
Chang, H.-J., & Andreoni, A. (2020). Industrial Policy in the 21st Century. Development and Change, 51(2), 324-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12570

Industrial policy is back at the centre stage of policy debate, while the world is undergoing dramatic transformations. This article contributes to the debate by developing a new theory of industrial policy, incorporating some issues that have been n... Read More about Industrial Policy in the 21st Century.

Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development (2019)
Book Chapter
Chang, H.-J., & Andreoni, A. (2019). Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development. In M. Nissanke, & J. A. Ocampo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics: Critical Reflections on Globalization and Development (409-439). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14000-7_12

Institutions were at the foundation of development economics, when it was first established as a separate branch of economics. Indeed, one important impetus behind the emergence of development economics was the recognition that developing countries h... Read More about Institutions and the Process of Industrialisation: Towards a Theory of Social Capability Development.