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Decolonising development economics: learning from India

April 28, 2025 • Mark Fabian/Maria Bach • Season 6 • Episode 5

This episode’s guest is Dr Maria Bach, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and host of Ceteris Never Paribus: the History of Economic Thought Podcast. She completed her PhD at King’s College in London, now available as a book with Cambridge University Press, Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists. The book excavates the overlooked history of Indian thinking about progress and growth, showcasing how a generation of thinkers there, unburden by the blinkers of colonialist ideology, reached the insights of today’s development policy a century ago. As you may have guessed from that title and the book’s content, Maria is an economic historian and historian of economic thought with a strong interest in decolonising the discipline and its curriculum. If you want to know what that means and why it’s important, please stay with us.

Find out more about Maria Bach:

https://rehpere.org/en/maria-bach

Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast

https://ceterisneverparibus.net/

Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/relocating-development-economics/1048AF3FDAF95B3F6B5984CDB92D6D91

Mikhail Bakhtin:

(2014). Bakhtinian dialogism. In D. Coghlan, M. Brydon-Miller (Eds.) The SAGE encyclopedia of action research (Vol. 2, pp. 73-75). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n37

Arvind Panagariya:

https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/arvind-panagariya

Arvind Panagariya, & School, E. (2024). The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-nehru-era-economic-history-and-thought-and-their-lasting-impact-9780197774618?