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The Reading Circle of Rethinking Economics India Network discussing ideas from Pluralist and Heterodox Economics. Rethinking Economics India Network is a network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom. Sign up Form: https://india850453.typeform.com/to/JgdBnKaa Reading Circle Page: https://www.notion.so/Rethinking-Economics-India-Reading-Circle-d9e9b5d01cd34046bd331e0e45127fb2

  1. 27/04/2022

    Session 18: Economic Models of China and Asian Tigers

    We will be reading: https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china The dream of total information became a nightmare in postwar China | Aeon Essays

    1h 26m

  2. 06/08/2021

    Session 17: Economics of Education II

    We will be reading: Aiyar, Y. (2019). Schooling is not Learning. Centre for Policy Research. Priya, L. (2020). How Does the National Education Policy Accelerate the Privatisation. Economic and Political Weekly.

    1h 28m

  3. 15/07/2021

    Session 16: Economics of Education I

    Our goal for the first session is twofold: First, we aim to understand the origin and historical use of the theory of public goods argument that's frequently deployed in debates on the provisioning of education. Second, we aim to critically evaluate the claims the public goods argument makes in order to identify its limitations when informing education policy. We will be reading:  Daviet, B. (2016) Revisiting the Principle of Education as a Public Good. Education Research and Foresight Series, No. 17. Paris: UNESCO. Williams, G. (2016) 'Higher education: Public good or private commodity?' London Review of Education, 14 (1), 131–42.

    1h 25m

  4. 28/06/2021

    Session 15: History of Economic Thought II

    Session 15 of REIN Reading Circle. Topic of discussion We will discuss the idea of 'Indian Economics' that emerged during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Scholars tried bringing in historical particularities and nationalism to their study of the Indian economy, set against the background of the emergent nationalist movement. Through this we will look at questions of development, education and pedagogy, and what are the implications of placing the nation as a central category of analysis in economic thought. Essential reading Ranade, Mahadev Govind. 1906. Chapter 1: "Indian Political Economy", in Essays on Indian Economics: Collection of Essays and Speeches. Madras: G.A. Nateson and Co. [the primary text which inspired a generation of economists to work upon a conception of Indian Economics, aspiring to induct history and the national interest in their economic writings.] Goswami, Manu. 2004. Chapter 7: "Political Economy of Nationhood", in Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space. Oxford: Permanent Black, pp.209-241. Suggested reading (Optional) Goswami, Manu. 2004. Chapter 8: "Territorial Nativism: Swadeshi and Swaraj", in Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space. Oxford: Permanent Black, pp.242-276. [this chapter looks at the early-twentieth century swadeshi movement and its quest to create an organic national community and national economy. It links up closely with the creation of a homogenous and singular national identity] Karak, Anirban. 2020. "What was 'Indian' Political Economy? On the separation of the 'social, the 'economic', and the 'ethical' in Indian nationalist thought, 1892-1948", Modern Asian Studies. Ambirajan, S. 1978. "Introduction", in Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. [shows the importance of political economy to the administration of British India and sets a background to the importance of studying the history of political economy in a colonial context]

    1h 38m

  5. 15/06/2021

    Session 14: History of Economic Thought I

    Session 14 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Lecture One - On the Great Divide in Economic Theory by Krishna Bharadwaj Krishna Bharadwaj.pdf Aspromourgos, T. (2017, July 6). Why History of Economics? Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10370196.2017.1339580?journalCode=rher20 Thomas, A. M. (2020, November 7). A History of Contemporary Economic Theories. Economic and Political Weekly. https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/45/book-reviews/history-contemporary-economic-theories.html

    1h 21m

  6. 24/05/2021

    Session 13: Informal Labour & Future of Work II

    Session 13 of REIN Reading Circle. Readings: Arguments for gig economy Thornton, M. (2020, February 19). Legislation Should Help Rather Than Hinder the Gig Economy. Mises Institute. https://mises.org/power-market/legislation-should-help-rather-hinder-gig-economy Schwellnus, C., Geva, A., Pak, M., & Veiel, R. (2019). GIG ECONOMY PLATFORMS: BOON OR BANE? OECD. https://fairgig.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ECO-WKP201919.pdf Arguments against gig economy Lawrence, M. (2020, December 2). Common Wealth: To #MakeAmazonPay, Reimagine the Platform Economy. Progressive International. https://progressive.international/wire/2020-12-02-common-wealth-to-makeamazonpay-reimagine-the-platform-economy/en/ Zarkadakis, G. (2021, May 14). Do platforms work? Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/workers-of-the-world-unite-on-distributed-digital-platforms

    1h 22m

  7. 24/05/2021

    Session 12: Informal Labour & Future of Work I

    Session 12 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Singh, Jaivir. “Who Is a Worker?” Labour, Employment and Economic Growth in India, edited by K. V. Ramaswamy, 2015, pp. 265–91. Crossref, doi:10.1017/cbo9781316156476.011. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316156476.011 Basole, Amit, et al. “The Time Is Right for an Urban Employment Guarantee Programme.” The India Forum, 30 Nov. 2020, www.theindiaforum.in/article/time-right-urban-employment-guarantee-programme. Mohanty, Manoranjan. “Chapter 2 - Migrant Labour on Centre Stage: But Politics Fails Them.” Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India, 1st ed., Routledge India, 2021, pp. 9–23. https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Workers-and-Fundamental-Freedoms-Pandemic-Vulnerabilities-and/Hans-Kannabiran-Mohanty-Pushpendra/p/book/9780367641559

    1h 25m

  8. 28/04/2021

    Session 11: Economics of Social Justice II

    Session 11 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice. Chapter 1: The Economics of Caste from The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India. The Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t been a “great equaliser” for India’s queer population.

    1h 23m
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The Reading Circle of Rethinking Economics India Network discussing ideas from Pluralist and Heterodox Economics. Rethinking Economics India Network is a network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom. Sign up Form: https://india850453.typeform.com/to/JgdBnKaa Reading Circle Page: https://www.notion.so/Rethinking-Economics-India-Reading-Circle-d9e9b5d01cd34046bd331e0e45127fb2

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