Lecture Series | Economy & Society Winter School 2024
This series has been created out of a selection of lectures delivered at the Economy & Society Winter School 2024. Alongside videos, these lectures also contain reading resources and reference material.
André Vereta-Nahoum, Carol Upadhya, Simone Polillo, Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Sebastian Schwecke, Rina Agarwala, Mariana Luzzi, Patrick Heller, Nitsan Chorev, Priya Sangameswaran
December 2024
These lectures cover a wide array of topics from fundamentals to frontiers and equip students with the basics of economic sociology and introduces them to some cutting edge research on select themes as listed below:
- Introduction to economy and society as a field
- Methods and debates that illuminate the understanding of economy and economic phenomena
- Indian Capitalism, Development & Growth
- Racial Capitalism
- Caste and Capital
- Economic Sociology of Migration
- The Development of Labor under Contemporary Capitalism,; Organisation of work beyond the state regulation; Markets as social structures
- Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres
- New Monetary Circuits
- The political economy of international organisations and foreign aid
- Neoliberalism and Post-Neoliberalism
- Methodological questions at the intersection of nature, economy, and society; Capitalism and nature; Unpacking commodification of nature
- Institutional dynamics and everyday life of public systems and bureaucracies
Lectures and readings list due to be updated on 15th September, 2025. Stay tuned!