For more heterodox resources, check out Rethinking Economics India’s Pluralist Resources Database. The project aims to build a public repository of resources to support students and scholars in learning pluralist economics. …

For more resources like this, check out the Introduction to Heterodox Economics and Pluralist Movement categories on Rethinking Economics India Network’s newly launched Project Pluralist Resources. The project aims to build a public repository of resources to support students and scholars in learning pluralist economics. …

This article is an edited version of the research paper titled Financial Inclusion and Fertility: An Empirical Study submitted by the author at the Global Governance and Public Health Vulnerabilities in the Global South Conference, jointly organised by the Rethinking Economics India Network (REIN) and the Young Scholars’ Initiative (South…

This article is an edited version of the research paper titled Lessons for the Global South: Malaysia's Foray into Electronic Health Records submitted by the author at the Global Governance and Public Health Vulnerabilities in the Global South Conference, jointly organised by the Rethinking Economics India Network (REIN) and the…

It has been 8 years since the ISIPE Open Letter was published in 2014. Since then, much has changed in the world — but has economics education also reacted to these developments? With the COVID-19 pandemic, the movement for change in economics education felt that we needed to update our…

With the promise to revamp the Indian education system from primary school to higher education, the New Education Policy of 2020 focuses on imparting essential skills to students while also providing a multidisciplinary education. Some of the key clauses include adequate focus on the foundational school years, conduction of board…

Mainstream economics, for long, has been successful in firming up what constitutes the productive sphere of work. This points to the short-shrift paid to the kinds of work that bind a seamless exchange of transactions in the productive sphere, comprising, chiefly, the (social) agents with qualitatively higher bargaining power. I…

Economics has always focused on the price mechanism to solve the problem of efficient distribution of resources in the economy. Prices are assumed to act as signals whether there is a shortage or a surplus and inform the consumers and the producers to make their decisions accordingly. What happens if…

Poverty, inequality, and development are at the core of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach that challenged the traditional view of the association of development with only economic growth. The concept of development undertook a paradigm shift when built on two fundamentals: that it should focus on the person as an individual…