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SUMMARY:YSI Session on Structural Change\, Youth Employability and Inequality.
DESCRIPTION:Overview \nThe Inequality Working Group of the Young Scholar Initiative (IWG-YSI)\, School of Economics\, University of Hyderabad\, and the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) University\, Hyderabad\, are pleased to announce the International Conference on “Structural Change\, Youth Employability\, and Inequality”\, on 27-28 November 2025. This event provides a platform for young scholars and PhD students to engage with and understand the complex issues of economic development and its challenges\, like unequal access to resources\, food security\, housing\, education\, health\, and other public goods. The persistence of inequality in access to education (human capital) leads to unequal access to decent jobs (capability inequalities). This not only limits earning capabilities but also leads to increased inequality in income distribution. Moreover\, the unplanned development of urban centres (cities and towns)\, the slower pace of structural transformation\, and sluggish industrial growth\, etc.\, limit the career opportunities of many young educated youth. We will also have special invited talks by researchers\, advisors\, and policymakers with practical experience developing and implementing government and regulatory policy. We aim to promote the exchange of ideas and highlight recent works on addressing the myriad issues that India and other developing countries face today\, as the global economy and scientific development bring up new challenges for us. We hope to bring together the academic community and policymakers to discuss their contributions and efforts to mitigate such challenges. Finally\, we aim to provide a platform to address the broader issues and challenges of structural change and inequality. \nWhy Participate? \nThe conference will give participants a comprehensive understanding of inequality and challenges to sustainable economic development. It will also provide a platform to engage with leading scholars and policy experts. \nThemes of the Conference \n\nEconomic Growth\, Structural Change\, Inequality and Marginalisation\nEducation\, Decent Jobs\, and Youth Employability\nUrbanisation\, Migration\, and Informal Sector\nFood Security\, Poverty and Inequality\, and Climate Change\nInequality in Health and Livelihood\n\nEligibility Criteria \nRegistered early young researchers and doctoral students in Indian colleges\, universities\, or institutes. Preference will be given to applicants who are new to YSI’s events. \nApplication Process \n\nCurriculum Vitae (CV): Include academic qualifications\, research experience\, and key publications (if any).\nExtended Abstract: Up to 1\,000 words providing a detailed overview\, including research objectives\, theoretical framework\, methodology\, preliminary results\, and implications.\n\nPaper Submission Guidelines \n\nExtended Abstract\nLength: 800 to 1\,000 words\nContent: A concise summary of the research\, including the issue\, relevance\, objective\, and methodology under any of the conference themes. The author’s name or affiliation must not be mentioned anywhere in the extended abstract to ensure anonymity during the review process. Use the conference theme number as the filename.\nFull Working Paper\nLength: Maximum of 6\,000 to 8\,000 words (including references and tables). Papers must be the original work of the scholars. All submissions will be checked for originality using one of the plagiarism detection tools.\nFormatting Guidelines\n\nThe full paper must include an abstract of 150-200 words\, 4-6 relevant keywords\, and appropriate Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes (https://link.springer.com/journal/41775/submission-guidelines ) at the end of the abstract. The format of the Word file is Times New Roman font\, 12-point font\, 1.5 line spacing\, both sides justified\, 1-inch margin on all sides\, and automatic page numbering on each page. \nTravel and Accommodation \n\nModest twin-sharing accommodation will be provided for presenters of accepted papers\, on a one-paper-one-presenter basis.\nMeals (Breakfast\, Tea\, Lunches\, and Dinners) are served during the Conference days.\nSelected scholars will be provided a travel stipend equivalent to a third-tier AC train (excluding Rajadhani\, Duronto\, Vande Bharat\, and other premium or dynamic pricing trains). Tickets and proof of travel should be shared with us for reimbursement. Scholars who can cover the travel cost on their own are also encouraged to apply (free accommodation and food will be covered).\n\nTentative Deadlines \nCall for Applications Open: July 30\, 2025. \nDeadline for Submission of Extended Abstract: August 24\, 2025. \nNotification of Abstract acceptance: September 5\, 2025. \nDeadline for submission of full working paper: October 12\, 2025. \nFinal Selection Announcement: October 20\, 2025. \nWorkshop: November 27-28\, 2025. \nOrganizing Team \nRohit Kumar Rawat Organiser\, YSI-INET and PhD Scholar\, School of Economics\, University of Hyderabad. \nNandu Sasidharan Coordinator\, YSI-INET and PhD Scholar\, University of Siena\, Italy. \nAditi Member\, YSI-INET and PhD Scholar\, School of Economics\, University of Hyderabad. \n 
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Capitalism and Economic Order II
DESCRIPTION:The History of Economic Thought Working Group and East Asia Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative is launching a webinar series that brings critical attention to the idea\, practice\, and evolution of capitalism. This project aims to reconnect the history of economic ideas with the world they sought to describe\, reform\, or transform. Capitalism is not just an economic system; it is a lived experience\, a political project\, and an ideological battleground. \n  \nWe seek to open a conversation about capitalism as it has been theorised\, imagined\, and contested across historical periods and geographies. From early critiques of enclosures and slavery\, to colonial accumulation and contemporary platform economies\, capitalism’s forms have shifted\, but its underlying logics—commodification\, accumulation\, exclusion—continue to shape our worlds. \n  \nThis series will invite senior scholars who work across traditions—Marxist\, classical\, feminist\, ecological\, decolonial—to speak to these shifting realities. Our goal is not to arrive at a unified definition of capitalism\, but to stay with its plurality. What is the nature of capitalism in our time? What kind of capitalism is being debated in different contexts? What kind of resistance does it provoke? How do economic theories shape their justification or critique? \n  \nOur approach to history foregrounds tension\, silence\, and the politics of knowledge. The HET WG places special emphasis on themes like decolonisation\, pluralism\, epistemic difference\, and the often under-acknowledged intellectual contributions from the Global South. We invite our participants to think about histories of caste\, race\, gender\, and land\, alongside more familiar categories such as markets\, property\, and the state. \nKey areas of focus include: \n\nHistories of capitalism across continents: not just as diffusion from Europe\, but as co-productions and frictions and histories of capitalism have their centres spreading across the globe\, not only in the WEST but in the EAST too\, from Malacca\, Hugli\, Calicut\, Macao\, Nagasaki\, Pegu to Batavia\, to name a few.\nCapitalism’s relationship with colonialism\, racialisation\, and dispossession\nProperty regimes\, financial architectures\, and state-market entanglements\nTrade\, Tariffs and Wars\nDebates on crisis: inflation\, debt\, austerity\, climate collapse\nIntellectual genealogies: from Marx and Gandhi to Du Bois\, Luxemburg\, Fanon\, and Polanyi\nThe metabolism of capital and planetary boundaries\nThe role of economics as a discipline in naturalising or resisting capitalist logics\n\nThis series is not an attempt to replace critique with nostalgia or celebration. Instead\, we want to create a space where histories of capitalism can inform strategies for its transformation or transcendence. Theories of capitalism are not just descriptions; they are interventions. We hope to create a space where critique and imagination work in tandem. \n  \nProf. Barbara Harriss-White\n  \nA Different Approach to Informality\, Friday\, 28 November 2026\, 9.00 am EST\nIndia’s informal economy is established as the largest in the world – comprising almost all employment and probably just under half of GDP\, though this is thought to be declining. The theoretical genealogy of informal activity – as with the categories of the state which academics have to use – is marked by binaries and duality (unorganised\, unprotected\, unincorporated etc).  In this lecture I’ll explore a different conjecture: that\, irrespective of their state categorisation\, informal economic activity negotiates the politics of selective enforcement of state-regulative laws and the politics incentivising selective adherence (voluntary)  and selective compliance (for fear of penalties) to them.  I use an experiment with AI\, corroborated with material from seven cases using my own fieldwork\, to make an initial\, incomplete exploration. It indicates that the informal economy is pervasive. \n  \nBarbara Harriss-White\, FAcSS\, is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Emeritus Fellow Wolfson College Oxford University – also  Research Fellow at the Max Weber Foundation for South Asian Studies\, New Delhi and chair of the Young Scholars’ Seminar of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies\, Bangalore.  Committed to long-term field research in (agrarian) political economy\, in the study of informal capitalism and in dimensions of deprivation and waste. Forty two doctoral students\, as many post docs and as many (co)authored and edited books; 143 papers and 153 chapters. Former Director of Queen Elizabeth House\, Oxford and founder-director of Oxford’s M Phil in Development Studies and its Contemporary South Asian Studies programme in Area Studies. \n\nRelated Sessions\n  \nS01: The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It with Prof. Barbara Harriss-White\nS03: Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History with Prof. David McNally
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