ERIK S. REINERT is professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Founder and Chairman of The Other Canon Foundation in Norway.  His main focus is the theory of uneven development and the history of economic thought and policy. Professor Reinert, who lectures in five languages, has given seminars and lectures worldwide. He is author of “How Rich Countries Got Rich... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor”, published in 20 languages and frequently reprinted. World Economics Association listed Reinert’s volume among the 50 books from which the top 10 economics books of the last 100 years were to be selected.

Preferred e-mail address: eriksreinert@gmail.com

Sjokkterapien. Comment in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 6 April 2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

Minoritetshistorie med mangel. Book review of "Samenes historie fra 1751 til 2010" in Norwegian independent journal for Norwegian and translated non-fiction, Prosa (#3 2021).

How Rich Countries Get Rich & How Poor Countries Stay Poor: A Rethink of Economic Orthodoxy. YouTube recording of conversation between Reinert and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Lord David Sainsbury, and USC professor Jacob Soll. 06.05.2021

Når utviklingshjelp hindrer økonomisk utvikling. Comment in Bistandsaktuelt, 29.05.2020 (in Norwegian)

Norges skam. Comment in Klassekampen (15.07.2020) and Nordnorsk debatt (16.07.2020) (in Norwegian)

Reindriften og den norske "hakkeorden." Comment in Nordnorsk debatt, 27.07.2020 (in Norwegian)

Stordriftsulemper. Comment in Klassekampen, 30.12.2020 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

 

Professional article

• Erik Reinert (1993). Catching up from way behind - a third world perspective on first world history. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Porter-prosjektet, økonomisk teori og fremtidig industripolitikk. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Technology, evolutionary economics, and the world economic order. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Jeroen P van der Sluijs; Samuele Lo Piano et al. (2020). Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto,. (external link)

Research report

• Erik Reinert (1994). A Schumpeterian theory of underdevelopment - a condtradiction in terms?. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1994). Hvorfor er økonomisk vekst geografisk ujevnt fordelt?. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Technology and uneven development - an evolutionary approach. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1994). Tjenestesektoren i det økonomiske helhetsbildet. (external link)
• Erik Reinert; Vemund Riiser (1994). Recent trends in economic theory - implications for development geography. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (2004). How Rich nations got Rich: Essays in the History of Economic Policy. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1994). Competitiveness and its predecessors: A 500-year cross-national perspective. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Kirsti Strøm Bull; Robert Corell; Inger Marie Gaup Eira et al. (2004). Assessing vulnerabilities: a new strategy for the Arctic. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Porter-prosjektet og nyskaping i norsk industri. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Post-Porter blues - Norwegian industrial policy between oil and mature industries. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Evolusjonær økonomi og næringspolitikk. (external link)

Academic article

• Mikkel Nils Sara; Nils Oskal; Svein D. Mathiesen et al. (2007). Saami reindeer pastoralism under climate change: Applying a generalized framework for vulnerability studies to a sub-arctic social-ecological system. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Marta Kuc-Czarnecka; Samuele Lo Piano et al. (2023). Impact assessment culture in the European Union. Time for something new?. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Recent trends in economic theory - implications for Latin America. (external link)
• Erik Reinert; Vemund Riiser (1993). Recent trends in economic theory - implications for development geography. (external link)
• Andrea Saltelli; Lorenzo Benini; Silvio Oscar Funtowicz et al. (2020). The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability. (external link)
• Jørn Braa; Eric Monteiro; Erik Reinert (1995). Technology transfer vs. technological learning: IT-infrastructure and health care in developing countries. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Tor A Benjaminsen; Inger Marie Gaup Eira; Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen et al. (2016). Samisk reindrift - norsk forvaltning. (external link)
• Erik S. Reinert; Anders Oskal (2023). Reindeer Herding in Norway: Cyclicality and Permanent Change vs. Governmental Rigidities. (external link)
• Erik Reinert; Inger Marie Gaup Eira; Svein D. Mathiesen et al. (2009). Adapting to climate change in Sámi reindeer herding: the nation-state as problem and solution. (external link)

Media feature article

• Tor A Benjaminsen; Ivar Bjørklund; Erik Reinert et al. (2013). Useriøst om rein og rovvilt. (external link)
• Tor A Benjaminsen; Svein Dish Mathiesen; Erik Reinert (2011). Naturstridig reinsdyrpolitikk. (external link)
• Tor A Benjaminsen; Erik Reinert; Svein Dish Mathiesen (2011). Feil om reinsdyr. (external link)
• Tor A Benjaminsen; Svein Dish Mathiesen; Erik Reinert (2011). Reindriften – hva slags krise?. (external link)

Popular science article

• Erik Reinert (1993). Porter-prosjektet, økonomisk teori og fremtidig næringspolitikk. (external link)
• Erik Reinert (1993). Catching up from way behind - a third world view on first world economic history. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Tor A Benjaminsen; Ivar Bjørklund; Erik Reinert et al. (2013). Rein, rovvilt og bortforklaringer. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.