This is part of Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Orders, a virtual series for anyone interested in reconnecting economic thought with the real worlds it sought to describe, reform, or transform. Together, we’ll explore capitalism not just as an economic system, but as a lived experience, a political project, and an ideological battleground. Join the next session live!

The series is hosted by YSI's working groups on East Asia and on History of Economic Thought, and organized by Sattwick Dey Biswas and Kosal Nith.

About the speaker:
Rohinton P. Medhora is Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada where he remains a Distinguished Fellow. Previously, he was vice president of programs at the International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are international economic relations, innovation policy, and development economics.

Rohinton sits on the board of several research and non-profit organizations. He was a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation and The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030, and is a founding member of its successor the Digital Transformations for Health Lab at the University of Geneva. In 2021-22 he chaired the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee.

Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. He has published extensively in professional and non-technical journals and has produced several books including co-editing International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press). In May 2025 he produced a three-part video series on the governance of new technologies with the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.

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This is part of Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Orders, a virtual series for anyone interested in reconnecting economic thought with the real worlds it sought to describe, reform, or transform. Together, we’ll explore capitalism not just as an economic system, but as a lived experience, a political project, and an ideological battleground. Join the next session live!

The series is hosted by YSI's working groups on East Asia and on History of Economic Thought, and organized by Sattwick Dey Biswas and Kosal Nith.

About the speaker:
Professor Harriss-White’s research interests have developed from the economics of agricultural markets to India’s socially regulated capitalist economy and corporate capital; and from the malnutrition caused by markets to many other aspects of deprivation: notably poverty, gender bias and gender relations, health and disability, destitution and caste discrimination. She has a long term interest in agrarian change in southern India and has also tracked the economy of a market town there since 1972.

She held academic posts at Oxford from 1987 until her retirement in 2011. Since then she has directed an ESRC-DFID research project entitled Resources, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology And Work In Production And Distribution Systems: Rice In India.

She has been an adviser to the UK’S Department of International Development (DfID) and to seven UN organisations; as well as a trustee of the International Food Policy Research Institute and of Norway's Institute for Environment and Development.

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With Malin Roiha & Emma Fàbrega (European Social Research Unit & University of Barcelona, Spain)

A look at how election results can reveal underlying socio-economic and territorial discontent. We discuss how support for populist, extremist, or anti-stablishment parties often reflects perceived inequalities, loss of status, and the experience of being “left behind” in specific regions.

This series is designed for students, early-career scholars, and anyone interested in understanding how perceptions of inequality and well-being shape economic and social outcomes. Across four sessions, we’ll explore how feelings of deprivation, spatial disparities, and socio-economic discontent are reshaping regional dynamics, influencing politics, and informing new approaches to policy.

Introduction by Max Roessler (Uni Greifswald). Hosted by Crhistian Joel González Cuatianquis and Max Roessler of the YSI Urban and Regional Economics Working Groups and the YSI Behavior and Society Working Group, in collaboration with the Regional Studies Association (RSA).

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This is part of Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Orders, a virtual series for anyone interested in reconnecting economic thought with the real worlds it sought to describe, reform, or transform. Together, we’ll explore capitalism not just as an economic system, but as a lived experience, a political project, and an ideological battleground. Join the next session live!

The series is hosted by YSI's working groups on East Asia and on History of Economic Thought, and organized by Sattwick Dey Biswas and Kosal Nith.

About the speaker:
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development. Her most recent book is "The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It" (2025), Yale University Press.

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The second in a webinar series that explores how feelings of relative deprivation, spatial inequalities, and socio-economic discontent are reshaping regional trajectories and influencing economic outcomes. By bringing together scholars working at the intersection of perception, well-being, and place, the series aims to foster a deeper understanding of how these dimensions can enrich regional analysis, inform policy, and ultimately contribute to more inclusive territorial development.

In this session, Arndt Leininger presents "Electoral outcomes as a form of discontent"

About the speaker:
Arndt Leininger is an assistant professor of political science research methods at Chemnitz University of Technology, where he leads an Emmy Noether Research Group on “Polarization through and in referendums.” He previously worked at Freie Universität Berlin and served as interim professor at Universität Konstanz. Arndt holds a PhD from the Hertie School and an MSc from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on political behavior and applied quantitative methods, with interests in right-wing populism, polarization, direct democracy, turnout, youth in politics, election forecasting, and electoral studies.

Introduction by Max Roessler (Uni Greifswald). Hosted by Crhistian Joel González Cuatianquis and Max Roessler of the YSI Urban and Regional Economics Working Groups and the YSI Behavior and Society Working Group, in collaboration with the Regional Studies Association (RSA).

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November 12, 2025 (15:00-16:00 CEST) – Policy, Perception and Place: Rethinking Regional Development Strategies (Malin Roiha & Emma Fàbrega – European Social Research Unit & University of Barcelona, Spain). Register at https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/ysi-rsa-webinar-series-on-regional-inequalities-and-perceived-left-behindness/2025-11-12/

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The second in a webinar series that explores how feelings of relative deprivation, spatial inequalities, and socio-economic discontent are reshaping regional trajectories and influencing economic outcomes. By bringing together scholars working at the intersection of perception, well-being, and place, the series aims to foster a deeper understanding of how these dimensions can enrich regional analysis, inform policy, and ultimately contribute to more inclusive territorial development.

In this session, Grete Gansauer presents "Emerging spatial imaginaries of 'left behind' places in US policy discourse."

About the speaker:
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Her interest in rural community development sprouted while leading NGO programs and convening collaborative governance forums on environmental issues in Western Montana timber and mining communities in her early career. Today, her research maintains a focus on rural areas and natural resource production. Using qualitative policy analysis methods and place-based case studies, her research examines regional development and sustainability challenges amidst spatial inequality, and how central policies ‘touch down’ at the regional level. She has held fellowships and visiting appointments with the US Department of Agriculture, National Academies of Sciences in Washington DC, and University of Cambridge, leading her to collaborate on research in the US, UK and Finland. Currently, she is a board member of the Regional Studies Association, and she co-organizes EdgeNet, a global research network on peripheral regions and why they matter

Introduction by Max Roessler (Uni Greifswald). Hosted by Crhistian Joel González Cuatianquis and Max Roessler of the YSI Urban and Regional Economics Working Groups and the YSI Behavior and Society Working Group, in collaboration with the Regional Studies Association (RSA).

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- October 15, 2025 (15:00-16:00 CEST) – Electoral outcomes as a form of discontent (Arndt Leininger – Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) Register at https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/ysi-rsa-webinar-series-on-regional-inequalities-and-perceived-left-behindness/2025-10-15/

- November 12, 2025 (15:00-16:00 CEST) – Policy, Perception and Place: Rethinking Regional Development Strategies (Malin Roiha & Emma Fàbrega – European Social Research Unit & University of Barcelona, Spain). Register at https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/ysi-rsa-webinar-series-on-regional-inequalities-and-perceived-left-behindness/2025-11-12/

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