00:00 Introduction
01:41 Lynn's tips
16:30 Audience questions

Watch our previous Scholars on Screen episode here:
https://youtu.be/nY2GLVr2rYc

About the speaker
Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). A cultural theorist and journalist, she has written for Reuters, Al Jazeera, Salon, and Huffington Post, among others. She’s the author of Reading the Sphinx and co-editor of The 99%: How the Occupy Movement is Changing America. She holds a PhD from NYU, where she taught writing and semiotics, and has collaborated with economists like William Lazonick and Gar Alperovitz on ebooks promoting inclusive economic thinking.

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00:00 Introduction
07:00 Why video?
21:38 Structuring your message
44:40 Setup and delivery
51:00 Editing and sharing

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Session 5 of YSI's Early Career Researchers Series

Speaker: Surbhi Kesar, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London

Surbhi Kesar is a development and political economist, who currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. Her recent and ongoing work focusses on labour and informal economy and the reproduction of the structure of economic dualism in India with high economic growth, thereby critiquing the imaginary of development-as-capitalist-transition; relation between identities and social exclusion; political economy of crises; a critical engagement with the social reproduction theory; and approaches towards decolonising the field of economics. Her research is embedded in Marxian Political Economy and South-centric critical frameworks of economics.

Abstract

Despite a high economic growth experienced by the India, a vast majority of its workforce derives livelihoods from the informal economy. In this talk, we reflect on how different strands of literature – both mainstream and critical – have explained the persistence of the informal economy and what role it plays in the process of economic development. Using data from individual and firm level surveys, over the period of high growth, we assess various dynamics of India’s informal economy . We reflect on why India’s experience does not square with the dominant theories and posit an alternative framework, following the works of Kalyan Sanyal, that can help us make sense of the current reality. Building on it, we derive the research agenda on informal economy and post-colonial capitalist development and posit the questions that need answering.

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Presenter: Perry Mehrling

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Gregor Laudage, Armin Haas, Andrei Guter-Sandu, Steffen Murau
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=491050

Discussant: Wolfgang Münchau

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Day 2 of the 2025 YSI Moneyview Symposium

Wolfgang Münchau in conversation with Maria C. Schweinberger

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