Hans Walter Singer, 1910-

Nascut in Germania, studiaza cu Schumpeter la Bonn si apoi se duce la Cambridge unde este elevul lui Keynes si isi obtine doctoratul in economie.

Dupa al doilea razboi mondial incepe sa lucreze pentru Natiunile Unite din 1947 pana in 1969. In acest timp este unul din promotorii "Programului Natiunilor Unite pentru Alimentatie".

In 1950 publica un studiu calculand costurile comertului international pentru tarile in dezvoltare. Teza numita Prebish-Singer pune bazele teoriei dependentei si strategia de substituire a importurilor.

Chiar daca nu poate fi considerat neo-marxist, a avut o puternica influenta asupra acestei scoli, in special asupra lui Paul Baran si André Gunder Frank.

Astazi este profesor emerit in prestigiosul Institute for Development Studies de la Universitatea din Sussex, UK.

Lucrari ale lui Hans W. Singer

• Men Without Work, 1937.  
• Unemployment and the Unemployed, 1940.
• "Gains and Losses from Trade and Investment in Under- Developed Countries", 1950, AER
• Economic Development of the Brazilian Northeast, 1955.
• International Development, Growth and Trade, 1964.
• The Strategy of International Development, 1975.

  Apasati aici pentru a vedea cartile lui  Hans W. Singer puse in vanzare

• Employment, Incomes and Equality: A strategy for increasing productive employment in Kenya, con R. Jolly, 1972.
• "Food Aid: Disincentive effects and their policy impliciations", con P.J. Isenman, 1975, IDS Communication
• Zambia: Basic needs in an economy under pressure,  1981, con R. Jolly.
• "The Terms of Trade Controversy and the Evolution of Soft Financing: Early years and the UN", 1984, en Meier y Seers, editores, Pioneers of Development.
• "Trade Policy and Growth of Developing Countries: Some new data", con P. Gray, 1988, World Development.