surbhikesar.bsky.social
Economic development & political economy.
Senior lecturer in Dept. of Economics, SOAS U of London.
Researches informality, structural transformation, post-colonial capitalist development, decolonizing econ.
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What about Braverman? @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social maybe u can suggest more?
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Done ! :)
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“…mainstream sociologists were quite at home with Erik’s multivariate Marxism. If this was Marxism, then bring it on"
This is true for economics too, where in little ways Marx's insights have been incorporated stripping it of the politics.
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Worse even, this unscientific and non-historic understanding is being portrayed as a non-western way of looking at this issue.
Reading basic stuff by Ambedkar, Rodney, & works on decolonisation may help clarify these harmful misunderstandings.
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It’s a pity author almost ascribes a biological connotation to race, w/o any awareness of hw both race & caste were socially constructed for those in economic power to weird extra-economic/ social power. Oppression is a central feature of both systems, unlike wt article says.2/3
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See e.g.:
Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development?
Caroline O.N. Moser
An exploration into the nature of informal—formal sector relationships
Victor E. Tokman
Despite disagreeing w/ sm takes, one can’t disqualify the richness of issues discussed.
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Well, that’s not the part to be focussing on. The research tourism approach to third world developmental concerns is extremely Eurocentric and problematic.
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Ah, I see, okay yes :)
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Not sure, I agree entirely. I think his understanding of class is very different than his predecessors & is not restricted to a locus on class conflict. For him, class is a process of production, appropriation & distribution of surplus, which allows us a very different framework to study economy.
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That's how skewed the distribution is. However, most structural transformation and industrialisation debates bypass the critical question of labour absorption.
Informality (& the persistent surplus labour) is such a defining feature of the contemporary growth process in India.
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186/ From @surbhikesar.bsky.social , a starter pack of economists and researchers studying economic development/political economy of countries in the global South
bsky.app/profile/surb...
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Thank you, here is the commentary we wrote: www.epw.in/journal/2024...
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Hi, yes, here is the programme:
gapp.aucegypt.edu/research-hub...
It is likely to become an annual affair, will definitely post about it when it is being planned for the next iteration. Discussions are still underway.