30 years ago, economics in the Caribbean was much more interesting than it is today. It was concerned with matters like growth and transformation, distribution and equity, local control and participation, industrialization and agricultural development. Mathematical formalisation and econometric testing were not ‘dissed’, but it was accepted that they needed to be grounded in the institutional and structural realities of the Caribbean.

Today much of that attention to context has disappeared; and economics itself has largely been replaced by finance as the career of choice by many of our best and brightest young people. To quote Professor Levitt.

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Link to Kari Levitt interview in Race and Class