Project Pluralist
Pluralism, in contrast to mainstream economics, recognises and teaches a range of different approaches to understand the economy and its interaction with wider social and political systems in a reflective and engaging manner. Following from the 3 P’s of Pluralism (Pluralism Theory; Pluralism of Method, and Interdisciplinary Pluralism), iterated in the ISIPE open letter, the Rethinking Economics movement hopes to build a space where a representative and comprehensive economics education can promote a balanced exposure to a variety of perspectives that cover not only the mainstream, neo-classical models but also marginalised, excluded or overlooked schools of thought. As a movement to build better economics in society and classrooms, RE India aims to become a medium of advocating pluralism in the academic and policy space of economics.
This project aims to build a public repository of resources to support students and scholars in learning pluralist economics. The repository includes databases of various forms of resources including books, articles, videos, lectures, interviews and podcasts. The main focus is on works either oriented towards global south contexts or by scholars from the global south. Our team constantly updates the repository with new resources collated from various sources.
The latest curations from the team can be accessed here.
REIN Pluralist Database complements repositories and reading lists curated by other resources groups and forums such as Exploring Economics, D-Econ, AHE, Heterodox Economics Repository by keeping the focus on works by global south scholars and/or on global south context. We encourage you to keep a tab of all these repositories for a holistic understanding.
Repositories
Diversity in the Indian Economic Academia
Understanding the state of gender and caste-based diversity and representation and exploring the biases at play within the Indian academic ecosystem of economics.
The profession of economics has historically faced a lack of diversity: not just in the ideas that represent economic science, but also the individuals that work in the discipline. Typically, economists in training are taught concepts of efficiency and equity, but it is rare to see those discussed in the domain of the profession itself.
Download the report here.
Curriculum Project
Reviewing economics curriculum of Indian universities to build foundation for further research into the limitations of the current economics curricula in India, and how they might be reformed.
In the emerging discourse of economics education, there is a need to rethink in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of our undergraduate curriculum, and simultaneously its ability to meet the demands of students, teachers, and employers.
Download the report here.