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Jostein Hauge
@haugejostein
Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge • Political economy and development economics • Newsletter: https://t.co/4dDr0blbyn
Jul 9 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The course I teach at Cambridge has become exorbitantly expensive and is inaccessible for most people.

So I've decided to share the entire reading list with the public — here, via this thread.

My course is called "Development Economics" and consists of 8 lectures. 🧵 Image Image
May 21, 2024 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
NEW 🧵: Should industrial policy target manufacturing or services?

It should target both, but focus more on manufacturing as it remains the backbone of productivity growth and innovation. First, let's not dismiss the growing ability of services to drive productivity growth and trade.

In particular, we are seeing economies of scale more often in services that use digital technology or are themselves digitalized (e.g. Netflix and Spotify).
Jul 25, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
This article on the "manufacturing delusion" in The Economist gets some things right but many things wrong.

Here's a thread on what I see as the shortcomings of the article. I'm using a lot of evidence from my book, The Future of the Factory, which I'll link in at the end. /1 First, some of the data is dubious. The claim that the world has gone through deindustrialization is controversial. A recent paper finds that, rather than global deindustrialization, there's been a relocation of manufacturing to (primarily) China. /2

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
May 23, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Talk of deglobalization and reshoring of supply chains has hit a high. But is reshoring actually accelerating?

A thread 🧵. 1/6 Image This piece by the FT is a great example of how reading the fine print on supply chain and reshoring articles is important. It gives the impression that reshoring is accelerating, citing a survey by Make UK, the manufacturers' organization in the UK. 2/6

ft.com/content/8127db…
Mar 1, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1) If you would like to learn more about labour challenges in Ethiopia's factories, Vincent Hardy and I just published a paper on this in @AfrAfJournal: doi.org/10.1093/afraf/…. You can request a free version here: repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/28….

Summary follows in this thread 👇 2) This has been quite some time in the making. Lots of time spent in factories in Ethiopia. Interviews with workers, managers, and policymakers.