CSEP hosts 'Cambridge Economics in the Post-`Keynesian Era' with Ashwani Saith
Date and time
Wed, 8 February 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
Location
Sidgwick Site - Lecture Block Room 4
Ashwani Saith is Professor Emeritus at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and formerly was Chair of Development Studies and Head of the Development Studies Institute at the LSE. He studied economics at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and taught at the Delhi School of economics; in the 1970s, he took his Ph.D. in Economics while at Trinity College, Cambridge and served on the staff of Faculty of Economics before becoming a Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. He has been on the editorial boards of several leading development journals, especially Development and Change; and has published extensive on a wide range of development themes.
His work relating to Cambridge economics includes:
Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh: An Intellectual Biography of the Radical Sikh Economist, 2019, in Palgrave Series on History of Economic Thought.
The Cambridge Journal of Economics: A Forum of One’s Own, Review of Political Economy, 35th Anniversary Number 2023.
Joan Robinson and Indian Planning: An Awkward Relationship, Development and Change, 2008.
He is presently working on Keynesian economics and India, a contribution to the multi-country research project led by Louis-Philippe Rochon.
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