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Capitalism and climate change: An Asian perspective

YSI webinar series on dissecting capitalism

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May 1, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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Jayati Ghosh

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The introductory session of the webinar series will feature Professor Jayati Ghosh. She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.

Abstract

The inequalities and institutional structures of global capitalism are preventing humanity from preventing climate change or responding adequately to its ferocious effects. I consider how this is playing out in developing Asia and what can be done about it.

Speaker's Bio

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include “The making of a catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian economy”, Aleph Books forthcoming 2022; “When governments fail: Covid-19 and the economy”, Tulika Books and Columbia University Press 2021 (co-edited); “Women workers in the informal economy”, Routledge 2021 (edited); “Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India”, Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2009; co-edited “Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2014; co-edited “After Crisis”, Tulika 2009; co-authored “Demonetisation Decoded”, Routledge 2017; She has published more than 200 scholarly articles.

Prof. Ghoshhas received several prizes, including for the 2015 Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India; the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2011; the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010, Italy. She has advised governments

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Attendees

Tippi Leung

Janine Louisse Santiago

Edward Louise De Guzman

Roy Cobby

Nitul Nitul

Farwa Naqvi

Oscar Garza Vázquez

Kantheera Tipkanjanarat

Alizé Papp

Paula Haufe

GOVINDAPURAM SURESH

Pooja Narnoli

anne loescher

George Tchanturia

Rojalini Sahoo

Tanmay Devi

Shyam Soundararajan

Rishav Sharma

Kennedy Mbeva

Dhruv Goel

Deepakshi Singh

Deepakshi Singh

Saloni Drolia

Ankita Tripathi

Abhishek Prakash

Ambika Subash

Maria Goungor

sheena jain

Kunal Munjal

Aneesha Chitgupi

Mihir Naik

Mihir Naik

Arun Balachandran

Sattwick Dey Biswas

Bidhi Adhikari

Asmita Verma

Clara Hertz

Lluis Aragones Ferri

farhad gohardani

Güneş Topçu

Carla Coburger

Rok Piletic

Raul Zambrano

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