Work by our members
This library houses a growing collection of research work by YSI members, either created in direct collaboration with fellow members, or as a result of inspiration and support found in the community. If you have work that was produced in collaboration with other YSI members, or that was significantly supported by your participation in YSI projects, you are invited to submit it.
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When Minsky and Godley Met Structuralism
Underdevelopment is often conceived as being reproduced domestically. This paper emphasizes the international forces that enable the persistence of underdevelopment. We first explore how the currency hierarchy imposes a dependency...
Winds from the East: Ignored Ancient Asian Views on International Trade and Traders
The history of economic thought has discussed issues related to trade and religion predominantly from a Western perspective. In order to fill this gap in the literature, we investigate the...
From Greenwashing to Just Transitions: Bridging the gap between traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and TECH eco-innovations in renewable energy company CSR projects
It has become widely known that ecological innovation in resource management is needed and multiple efforts from macro to micro scales are racing towards solutions as climate change targets slip...
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Behind the Curtain of the Old Wizard The German Economic Recovery under Hjalmar Schacht, 1933-1937
The contribution of this study is to demonstrate how the specific mode of Reichsbank president and economic minister Hjalmar Schacht’s thinking helped him move Germany out of various socio-economic straitjackets:...
Functional distribution of income as a determinant of importing behavior: An empirical analysis
We examine the impact of the functional distribution of income on the demand for imports in developed and developing countries. Drawing upon a motivating accounting structure suggesting a potentially causal...
Inequality and the Capital Controversy: A Cambridge–Cambridge View of Technological Progress in Piketty and Marx
This paper analyzes the similarities and differences of the recent evidence of inequality from Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century and the older Marxist debate on the falling rate of...
Measuring the Technological Coherence of Environmental Technologies with the Industry Knowledge Base
This paper evaluates the importance of environmental technologies (ET) in the base of knowledge of 21 industries by using a new methodology based on the analysis of networks. To do...
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–1714
This article shows how public offices in the early modern period became investment assets in Castile (Spain). Moreover, it demonstrates that offices fulfilled all the conditions for being viewed as...
Subcontinent of India: A Part of the Earliest and Most Advanced Civilisation of the World
This paper examines the subcontinent of India from the point of view that it was partially home to the earliest and most advanced civilisation in the world. By examining this...
Hard Choices in Artificial Intelligence
As AI systems become prevalent in high stakes domains such as surveillance and healthcare, researchers now examine how to design and implement them in a safe manner. However, the potential...
Impacts from automation diffuse locally - a novel approach to estimate jobs risk In US Cities
Workers that become automated may transfer productivity gains to their co-workers or make it easier to automate their jobs too. In this paper, I empirically investigate how automatable jobs have...
La agenda de la inclusión financiera en las políticas públicas de la alianza Cambiemos (2015-2019)
El artículo estudia el viraje hacia la inclusión financiera de las políticas públicas durante la gestión de Cambiemos. Presenta un análisis del proceso de institucionalización de la agenda de inclusión...
Faith in Efficiency: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
It is commonplace to interpret the The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics (FWT) as an expression of Adam Smith's metaphor of an invisible hand. Whereas the mathematics and formal...
A perspective on economic development and poverty post-economic reforms implemented in India
The organizing committee of Vyankatesh College, Buldana, Maharashtra, India they did not invite any Abstract.
An Assessment of the Impact of Prison Labour in Colonial Africa: The Nigerian Example, 1872-1960
The establishment of colonial prisons across the various regions in Africa by the colonialists in the 19th and 20th centuries was one of the strategies aimed at consolidating its judicial...
Brazil’s Hyperinflation: Case Study
I wrote this within the framework of the course "Contemporary World Economy".
Analytical Perspectives on Green Finance & Corporate Social Responsibilies
Finance is strengthened in support of financial and individual capital, but frequently we highlight the former at the expense of the latter. As subscribers elsewhere to these essays correctly proclaim,...
Economic transition, dualism and informality in India: Nature and patterns of household-level transitions
We examine the Indian economy during a peak period of high growth between 2005-2012 to analyze nature and patterns of household-level transitions across the different sectors of the economy and...
Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India
This study investigates the relationship between individuals’ social identity and their future aspirations in a developing country. We analyse data from participants of a large-scale skill-training programme that targets rural...
Gold Jewellery making and Migrant Labour force in Kerala
This paper published as a special article in the Economic and Political Weekly is based on my 3 years of field work, in the Gold Jewellery Making Industry. The paper...
A Perspective on Financial Literacy and Inclusion in India
The financial inclusion is a crucial element in the fight against poverty. The ability to take effective decisions regarding the use and management of money with required informed judgments is...
How Digitization Is Impacting Banking Transactions and Financial Markets in India? A Discussion Paper
The world's economy has grown and prospered in the age of electronic money. Digital component is increasing in our lives. Historically, the Internet has spread at a phenomenal pace than...
Understanding Coronanomics: The Economic Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The globalization of COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts is set to run havoc across all economies in the world, throwing many into recession and possibly economic depression. As the...
Screening the efficiency of packaging waste in Europe
This paper analyses the efficiency of different packaging waste management systems at European level.
Research-Policy Linkages: Empirical Evidence from Agroeconomic Research in India
Policy-making processes in developing countries often continue to operate devoid of evidence. In this study, we explore the research-policy linkages between the agroeconomic research system (AERS) and the agricultural policy...
Interrogantes y desafíos para la inclusión laboral travesti-trans en el ámbito privado / Questions and challenges for transvestite-trans labor inclusion in the private sector
Large transnational companies are a sector that we must focus with a political and analytical approach when working on making transvestite-trans labor insertion effective, because these processes are part of...
Fostering circular cities: a study on urban circularity hotspot frameworks for the Western Balkan region
A main goal of this study - which also functions as deliverable 210078-D07 of the Circular Economy Beacons (CEB) project - is to evaluate currently available frameworks that measure and...
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