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B.A. Economics Fergusson College, (Pune);

Masters in Economic History (London School of Economics,
London)

Prof. Deepanshu Mohan

Professor of Practice and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University

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Key Expertise Economic History, Political Economy of Late Development, International Economics.

B.A. Economics Fergusson College, (Pune);

Masters in Economic History (London School of Economics,
London)

Biography

Deepanshu Mohan is Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS, Office of InterDiscplinary Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. His teaching affiliation for taught courses in areas of comparative political economy, development studies, research methods, is with the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the University (JGU), where he is also Director, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), and Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Higher Education (IIHED). 

Prior to visiting Oxford University this Fall as a Visiting Fellow at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Prof. Mohan has been a Visiting Professor to the South East Asia Centre (SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at Birkbeck College’s Faculty of Social Sciences where he is also been affiliated as an Honorary Research Fellow since 2022. 

He has previously held visiting assignments, professorships and positions with: University of Ottawa (School of International Development, Canada); FGV (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Carleton University (Department of Economics, Canada); Stellenbosch University (School of Public Leadership, South Africa); CamEd Business School (Cambodia), to name a few. 

His research work and published research broadly intersects areas of development studies, urban studies, comparative political economy, economic anthropology, public law, comparative economic thought. He is published with: Routledge, Taylor and Francis (London and New York); Elsevier; Oxford University Press (OUP) London; Cambridge University Press; NUS Singapore; Brill; Palgrave MacMillan, Springer Nature, to name a few. 

His last book, Strongmen Saviours: Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia, and Brazil,was published by Routledge (London and New York).  His two recent co-authored edited books, Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach and Crisis Narratives: Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid 19 Pandemic  are now out. He writes frequently for news platforms like Frontline Hindu, The Wire, Scroll.in, BloombergQuint, Deccan Herald, Mint etc. in India. Details of his other academic publications, journal articles, research profile are accessible from here.

• Labor Markets of India During a Pandemic: Observations from an Ethnographic Survey In Cities of Lucknow (UP) and Pune (Maharashtra) of Daily Wage Workers Across Mazdoor Mandis, Social and Economic Transitions in China and India, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

• 2022-23. Tracing the Journey of a Craft from ‘Embeddedness’ to ‘Commercialisation’: A Case of Hand Bloc Printing from the Jaipur Region. Asian Ethnicity.

• Understanding the IntraHousehold Decision Making and Bargaining Power of Female Domestic Workers Across Cities of India. Journal of Positive School Psychology. 2022, Vol. 6, No. 5, 5561–5584.

• Examining the informality in urban informal settlements -Evidence from Kapashera. Cities. Volume 123, April 2022.

• Impact of Urban Informality on Street Vendors of Delhi’s Janpath Market. Seybold Report. ISSN: 1533-9211.

• 2022-23. Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil. First published 2023 by Routledge.

• Post-Face. Voices from the Andolan: Interview with Union Leaders and Activists. Social Movement and Transformative Dissent, Routledge. Forthcoming, 2023.

• 2021-22. Governing Dynamics of a Changing Global Economic Order: Case for Developing Economies, Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies, co-edited by Prathivadi Anand. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), UK.

• 2021-22. Narratives of Daily Wage Workers Across Mazdoor Mandis (Labor Markets) of India During a Pandemic: Observations from an Ethnographic Survey in Cities of Lucknow and Pune.

• Viewing embeddedness and ethnic-solidarity in economics of exchange: Reflections from economic and cultural practices of Tibetan community in India, Asian Ethnicity.

• Gauging the impact of a pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of domestic workers across Indian cities. International Journal of Health Sciences.

• Examining the informality in urban informal settlements -Evidence from Kapashera. Cities. Volume 123, April 2022.

Governing Dynamics of Intra-Household Bargaining Relations in Informal Urban Spaces: Reflections from the Case of Female Domestic Help Workers across India, Recognition of The Rights of Domestic Workers in India (Edited Volume), Springer Nature Singapore.

“Inclusive Urban Eco-Systems: A Case Study on Street Vending Businesses in Markets of Kolkata (India)”. Asian Journal of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS).

• “The Role of Narratives in Analyzing Economic Growth: Reflections from India’s Growth Narrative since 1980s”. Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (New Delhi, India).

• “On the Ways of Knowing and Understanding Informality.” Asian Journal of Public Affairs, National University of Singapore.

• “The Invisible Entrepreneurs of Phnom Penh”. East Asia Forum, Australia National University.

• The Macroeconomics of ‘Oil Prices’ and ‘Economic Shocks’: Lessons from the 1970s., Risk Governance & Control: Financial Market & Institutions 5 (3).

• Financial Crises in Historical Perspective: Comparison of the U.S. and U.K. monetary policy responses to the financial crises of 1929 and 2008., World Review of Business Research.
Email dmohan@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Economic History, Political Economy of Late Development, International Economics.
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