Development
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Monsoon School on Inequality 2025
Regional ConveningThe Monsoon School on Inequality, set to be one of the highlight events of the Inequality Working Group (IWG) of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) for 2025, is a gathering designed to address discussions and research on socio-economic and educational disparities in India through a series of engaging and insightful activities.
Jul 24–26, 2025
The focus of this year’s monsoon school is on pluralistic approaches to research on inequality, bringing together perspectives from varied streams of economic thought. It will provide an interactive platform for advanced-level PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars affiliated with Indian research institutes to engage with diverse concepts, debates, and methodologies related to inequality.
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2nd Edition of The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
ConferenceJul 14–16, 2025
The interdisciplinary nature of the conference offers a platform to connect theoretical insights with practical solutions, fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration to address urgent climate and socio-economic issues. The conference will be the second annual event with the Centre of South Asian Studies - University of Cambridge.
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Behind the Tariff Dilemma: Kalecki on Structuralist Development Policy
Jun 23, 2025
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kalecki’s seminal lecture in Mexico on financing economic development, Jan Toporowski’s INET Working Paper considers the relevance of structuralism and Kalecki’s view of economic development for today.
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Working Paper
Kalecki and the Stucturalist View of Economic Development
Jun 2025
Kalecki challenged the structuralist view by pointing to the internal social class barriers to development, and the need to assure supplies of basic wage goods in order to avoid inflationary pressures that could derail the development process.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Prospects and Challenges for India
ConferenceINET-YSI SDG Conference in Jammu, India
Mar 21–22, 2025
We invite doctoral students and early career researchers/assistant professors (within 7 years of their Ph.D.) to a two-day conference that aims to foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues with attention to SDG goals for India.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Development in South Asia
ConferenceMar 17–19, 2025
The IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and its Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is organising a conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Development in South Asia
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INET-YSI Doctoral Scholars' Conference
ConferenceMar 11–13, 2025
Understanding India’s Northeast from Emerging Perspectives
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2nd Edition of Inclusive Development Conference: Housing and Urban Land Management in an Unequal World
ConferenceMar 5–7, 2025
The conference aims to examine the complex interplay of housing, law, economics, and spatial justice in an unequal world, and we welcome scholars and practitioners to participate.
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Understanding and Addressing Emerging Inequalities in the 21st Century in South Asia
ConferenceINET-YSI South Asia Regional Conference on Social Change
Feb 24–26, 2025
As the world grapples with rapid technological advancements, demographic shifts, environmental challenges, and governance transformations, new forms of inequality are emerging.
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International Conference on Social Identities, Institutions, and Economic Development in South Asia
ConferenceAzim Premji University Bhopal - INET - YSI Conference
Jan 17–18, 2025
The Economics Group at Azim Premji University, Bhopal, India, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and its Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI), is pleased to announce an international conference aimed at exploring the intricate relationships between social identities, institutions, and economic development in South Asia.
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Inaugural Lecture & Panel Discussion at the Emerging Markets Conference (EMC 2024)
ConferenceDec 10–13, 2024
EMC brings together the thinkers and doers, with insights and inter-disciplinary perspectives on emerging markets. It is about cutting edge ideas, the discussion at the frontiers, and achieving a strategic sense.
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Working Paper
The Diffusion of New Technologies
Jul 2024
The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.
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Poverty. Development. Globalisation
WorkshopAdvanced Graduate Workshop 2024
Jul 8–20, 2024
Two weeks of dialogues on Poverty, Development, Globalisation
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The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
ConferenceJul 1–2, 2024
The intricacies of the political economy that play out across countries in the Global South have profound significance for understanding the nature of ecological change and economic security that confront our world today.
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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Apr 19, 2024
The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.