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The Social Cost of the Price of Land

YSI South Asia Webinar on 'economic (hu)men'

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June 15, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:10 pm

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Sai Balakrishnan

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Benjamin Davy

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Welcome to our special session co-organised by South Asia WG, and Urban and Regional Economics WG! We are delighted to have Simone Maria Grabner, Urban and Regional Economics WG as the co-organiser of this session within our larger project!

For this special session, we are excited to have Dr. Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Global Urban Inequalities at the University of California, Berkeley. She will be discussing about the Social Cost of the Price of Land.

We are lucky to have Prof. Dr. Benjamin Davy, currently visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg, and at the School of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien University as the discussant.

Title of the presentation: The Social Cost of the Price of Land: Revaluing Agrarian-Urban Land in Globalizing India

This talk will focus on India's post-liberalization decades of "land wars." India's 1991 economic liberalization reforms augured a market- and urban- turn in political-economy, with a large-scale overhaul of earlier land laws to enable an expedited conversion of agricultural land into new urban land-uses. As policy makers searched for decentralized and market-oriented means for "discovering" the price of land, the core of these land transformations entailed the remaking of agricultural land from a protected commodity into a fungible real estate asset. With the urban turn, as location trumps fertility as the key metric for determining land price, these land revaluations in the urbanizing countryside have erupted into some of the most volatile

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Sattwick Dey Biswas

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Farwa Naqvi

Simone Maria Grabner

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