“…Government policies, in their view, should just facilitate the private sector through supply‐side support, while keeping incentives in line with comparative advantage. This is clearly a far cry from the ideas of the old development economists, as well as deeply at odds with major non‐mainstream approaches, viz Nicholas Kaldor's () Keynesian growth laws (further developed by Anthony Thirlwall and co‐authors), Luigi Pasinetti's (, ) demand‐driven structural economic dynamics, Lance Taylor's (, , ) structuralist macroeconomics, Erik Reinert's () historical school approach inspired by List and Schumpeter, and the institutionalist approach to late industrialization of Alexander Gerschenkron (), developed further by Alice Amsden, Ha‐Joon Chang and Robert Wade. What can we learn from the ‘new’ development economics that is different from what these non‐mainstream development economists have been arguing all the time?…”