EVENT: The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation

🗓️ 10 May
📍 Strand campus, KCL
⏲️10.00 - 18.00

A workshop focussed on current research in comparative political economy and the growth models approach in particular.

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This just dropped in India's inequality debate. 💥

Bharti, Chancel, Pikettty, and Somanchi tear apart the recent inequality deniers' takes, including that by India's chief economic officer, Nageshwaran and Bishtt, and the common culprits Bhalla and Bhasin, to bits.

“Almost half of UK vice-chancellors expect their university to run at a loss this year.” Finally a piece on higher ed in a major media outlet by someone — ⁦Hannah Rose Woods⁩ — who actually understands what they are talking about!! newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Thank you Dani Rodrik & Rohan Sandhu for inviting me to give the evening lecture @kennedy_school Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School conference on “What do global experiences in industrial policy teach us?' How to move beyond OLD industrial policy (top-down, picking winners) to design NEW industrial…

'Reproductive Racial Capitalism,' a special issue of HistoryOfThePresent is online! Read the intro by editors Jennifer Morgan & Alys Eve Weinbaum, & Weinbaum's article 'Hortense Spillers and the Ungendering of (Re)productive Racial Capitalism - both free: ow.ly/BICo50Rf6XR

Inequality in the UK is overwhelmingly *within* generations, not between them. .

Not about old vs young/'privileged boomers', but income and wealth inequality.

(As I've been saying for last decade..)

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Important article on the proposed gutting of staff at Goldsmiths. The “humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism.” theguardian.com/education/2024…

I highly recommend listening to this fascinating discussion! Thanks to Rahul Sirohi and Sonya Surabhi Gupta

Admissions to the IIHS Urban Fellows Programme 2024-25 are now open! India's urban future lies in the hands of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners.

My photo essay re fieldwork on project w Anisha Sharma. Women's aspirations not the problem. Fam & community far more supportive than we imagine. Prob: Not enough work in rural India, transport is a key barrier.
Ravinder Kaur Sonalde Desai alaka basu Naila Kabeer International Economic Association - Women in Econ International Association for Feminist Economics

👇 Give KingsHPE a follow! They're the new account for our History and Political Economy research group, a thriving multi-disciplinary group of academics who view political economy through a historical lens.

Featuring workshop presentations by Asif Ali Akhtar, aakash solanki Mila T Samdub Salwa Hoque Mrinalini Ravindranath Pratik Nyaupane, Preeti Raghunath, Anubha Abhishek Sekharan
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If you're interested in data on India – covering everything from work to health to the economy – go check out Rukmini S's newly launched: dataforindia.com

A bit like Our World In Data, Data for India is a public platform full of charts *and* context for those numbers.

According to the ACLS, 1,100 people applied for the 60 awards from their single remaining fellowship program for general humanities research. Applications were restricted to early career untenured PhDs. Clear evidence that there isn't enough humanities research funding available.

'As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began.'
James C. Scott, 2024
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast

It is also worth noting that Kuznets was one of early economists (perhaps b/c he was also a demographer) who argued that understanding social phenomena like inequality requires inclusion of politics, sociology, even psychology etc. That was totally forgotten afterwords.

🚨🚨Exciting news - next summer King's will be hosting the annual PPE Society's first London conference!

Welcoming all submissions from those working in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, broadly construed.

Read more here 👇
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I'm hiring two political theory post docs as part of my ERC/UKRI project Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. Please spread widely!

Article: Bielefeld Game Theory and Indiana Institutional Analysis: Elinor Ostrom and Theories of Common-Pool Resources, by Paul Erickson
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