Rainer Kattel is Professor of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.Jan A. Kregel is Senior Scholar at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; and the Tallinn University of Technology.Erik S. Reinert is Chairman of The Other Canon Foundation, Norway, and Professor at Tallinn University of Technology.

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• Preface; The Relevance of Ragnar Nurkse and Development Economics; The Life and Times of Ragnar Nurkse; Nurkse and the Role of Finance in Development Economics; Early Development Theory from Sun Yat-Sen to Ragnar Nurkse; The Roots of the Unequal Exchange; Nurkse and the Latin American Development Tradition (Prebisch/CEPAL); Industrializing the Periphery; Ragnar Nurkse and the Law&Economics of Development; The Influence of Keynes and Schumpeter on Nurkse's Development Theory; Nurkse Meets Schumpeter; Is the Accumulation of International Reserves Good for Development?; International Currency Experience and the Bretton Woods Agreement; Some Reflections on Nurkse’s ‘Patterns of Trade and Development’; India and Development Economics; Notes