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. Priya, L. (2020). How Does the National Education Policy Accelerate the Privatisation. Economic and Political Weekly.

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.

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...

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...

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....

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...

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. ...

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.

Session 10 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Ambedkar: Economics crucial for social justice https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/comment/ambedkar-economics-crucial-for-social-justice-442714 Caste and Economic Discrimination: Causes, Consequences and Remedies by Sukhadeo Thorat, Katherine S Newman https://www.im4change.org/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Caste_and_Economic_Discrimination_Causes_Consequences_and_Remedies_1.pdf The caste aways...

Session 9 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: A. IMPACT OF EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS ON GENDER INEQUALITY Ahmed, K.J., Haq, S.M.A. & Bartiaux, F. The nexus between extreme weather events, sexual violence, and early marriage: a study of vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. Popul Environ 40, 303–324 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-019-0312-3 B. GENDERED ASPECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED MIGRATION 2. Patel. Amrita and Giri Jasmine (2019). Climate Change,...

Session 8 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Ch 2- Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet from the book -This changes everything: capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein. Ch 7- Economic Institutions and the Natural environment from the book Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by Partha Dasgupta. Ch 4- Policy instruments for emission reduction from the book Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change...

Session 7 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law by Simon Deakin et. al. The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor - Chapter 9 - "Capital Rules by Law" (Optional) Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay - Chapter 5: Capital: A Self-Governing City

Session 6 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: [The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein](https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/#:~:text=Naomi Klein’s third book, The Shock Doctrine is,shock perpetrated on people, on countries, on economies.) - Introduction and Chapter 2. Present Crises of Capitalism and Its Reforms by Pulin B. Nayak.

Session 5 of REIN Reading Circle. The readings we will be discussing: Globalization, labour standards, and women's rights: dilemmas of collective (in)action in an interdependent world – Naila Kabeer Invisible Women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado-Perez - Preface as well as  Chapter 5: The Henry Higgins effect An interesting episode: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

Session 4 of REIN Reading Circle.  The readings we will be discussing: Gender in Economics: The Indian Experience by U. Kalpagam - It is a broad overview of how social sciences intersect with economics in feminist concerns in the Indian subcontinent. “Bargaining and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household" by Bina Agrawal. Optional but only a few pages- Interview of Silvia Federici by Mathew Carlin about reproductive labour, non-waged labour in Marxism. 

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...