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
We will be reading:
Aiyar, Y. (2019). Schooling is not Learning. Centre for Policy Research.
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:
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]
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]
Session 14 of REIN Reading Circle.
The readings we will be discussing:
Session 13 of REIN Reading Circle.
Readings: Arguments for gig economy
Arguments against gig economy
Session 12 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 11 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 10 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 9 of REIN Reading Circle.
The readings we will be discussing:
A. IMPACT OF EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS ON GENDER INEQUALITY
B. GENDERED ASPECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED MIGRATION
2. Patel. Amrita and Giri Jasmine (2019). Climate Change, Migration and Women: Analysing Construction Workers in Odisha. Sage journals. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049085718821756
C. WHY GENDER MATTERS IN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
3. IISD-Blog article: https://www.iisd.org/articles/gender-climate-change
4. CARE International (2020). Evicted by Climate Change-Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Climate-Induced Displacement. (Chapters 2, 4 and 5) https://careclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CARE-Climate-Migration-Report-v0.4.pdf
Session 8 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 7 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 6 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 5 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 4 of REIN Reading Circle.
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Session 3 of REIN Reading Circle.
The premise of any economic model is grounded on the categories that frame its inquiry. This week's readings seek to trouble the ways in which economics as a discipline imagines reality, and the categories it uses to translate lived experience into analyzable data. This set should provoke economics to confront the distance that there might be in the way they conceptualise and taxonomize reality, and the way in which its subjects, that is ordinary people imagine their own world. An entry into the discourses and power structures that have historically informed the way economics approaches its object of inquiry will hopefully be questioned through a close reading of these materials
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