Haroon's devlog

As the winter term of the 2017 - 2018 academic session gets underway, things will be busy. I will be teaching two courses in the fall term...

As we get going into the 2016 -17 academic year, it will be very busy. In addition to my normal teaching at Trent University, which include...

With the 2015 - 2016 academic year coming to an end, my work schedule will accelerate. Following a quality assurance review of the Departm...

I am already three weeks into the 2015 - 2016 academic year, and things have been happening very quickly these past few weeks. I have star...

With the 2014 - 2015 academic year at an end, I now move into a very busy late spring / early summer. Having just returned from almost 4 w...

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco, a Mozambican economist, has been  accused of libeling the then President, Armando Guebuza, in an open letter wh...

The summer is at an end, and I must say, it has been a whirlwind. In May and June I gave seminars to PhD students at Oxford University and...

On 21 August I posted a blog for the International Association of Feminist Economics, of which I am a founder-member.  The post can be read...

With the end of the winter term I move into a period of quite hectic activity. I have just started work on a new book,  Feast or Famine: S...

As I head into 2014 the winter will be unusually busy, even by my standards. Of course, there is teaching, at Trent University: the Blackbo...

As usual, the end of the summer brings about a flurry of work-related activities.  Of course, there is teaching, at Trent University: the B...

Chiwetel Ejiofor is a remarkable actor, and a sure-fire Academy Award winner, for his historically-unprecedented acting in 12 Years a Slave...

I have not offered any personal reflections on the death of Nelson Mandela last week, in part because, like so many people around the w...

From www.inequalitybriefing.org, an excellent visual overview of the state of inequality in the UK today.

ActionAid International, the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, and Oxfam are facilitating...

This  is without doubt the best explanation of the history, structure and impact of successive US Farm Bills that I have seen.  Clear, acce...

Mel's Prime Beef are eight three-minute clips on what is wrong with Ontario's food system.  Episode 6 is typical -- it goes for the...

An excellent infographic on the best and worst development performance in Africa:

From www.therules.org, an excellent brief overview of historical and contemporary global inequality.

For years I have been telling students that the world population is going to peak at 10 billion around 2050. Last year, following revised ...