New Populism: Approaches in Economic Thinking

(Economics)

Call for Papers

In the twenty first century national systems, both economic and political, in various parts of the world are going through dramatic changes. There is a shift in the issues that attract the attention and responses of common people and policymakers. In the twentieth century, the attention of policymakers and debates, as well as discourses in the public space had revolved around economic redistributive conflict. However, the emergence of populism, which has been brought about due to the diffusion of social media, the internet and repeated financial crisis, shifted the focus of discourse from distributive issues to debates located in themes such as nationalism, social conservatism, and social progression. Putting it another way, public debate and discussion have veered around two strands namely nationalism and social conservatism on the one hand and cosmopolitanism and social progressive viewpoints. For this conference, topics related to the following are welcome but are not limited to:


  • Rationality and Bounded Rationality

  • Nudge and populism

  • New Institutional Economics and populism

  • Well Being

  • Game Theory and populism

  • Religion and Economics Decision.

  • Neuro Economics

  • Economic and Analytics

  • Behavioral Economics

  • Innovation Economics

  • Gender Economics

  • Economics of Social Sector

  • Innovation Economics

  • Migration and Uneven Development

  • Neoliberalism

  • Fiscal Sustainability

  • Economics of Labor

Panel Conveners

Dr. Gerard Rassendren

Section Editor of 'New Populism: Approaches in Economic Thinking' in the Encyclopaedia

Dr. Marie Joseph Gerard Rassindren is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics of CHRIST University, India since 2000. He completed his PhD from of CHRIST University and Masters from Bangalore University. He teaches mainstream courses in Economics namely a Principles of Economics – Microeconomics and Macroeconomics for the undergraduate programme along with courses for the post graduate programme namely – History of Economics Thought, Political Economy of India, International Political Economy and New Institutional Economics. His primary research interests are in the interface of ethics and economics and in exploring economic trajectories in both conquest and administration of dynasties of ancient and medieval India.

Dr. Vijay Victor

Section Editor of 'New Populism: Approaches in Economic Thinking' in the Encyclopaedia

Dr. Vijay Victor is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, CHRIST University, India. He completed his Master's degree in Analytical Economics from the University of Kerala with a second rank. Vijay earned his PhD degree from Szent Istvan University, Hungary under the Stipendium Hungaricum framework, a fully-funded PhD fellowship granted by the Hungarian government. He was also awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus fellowship instituted by the European Commission in 2014. His areas of interest include macroeconomic policies, econometrics, and behavioural economics. He can be reached at vijay.victor@christuniversity.in.

Confirmed Participants

Interest: History of Economic Thought, Classical Political Economy

Dr. Alex M. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. He studied economics at the Universities of Madras, Hyderabad and Sydney.

Interest: Health and Population Economics, Statistics, Demography, and Epidemiology

Dr. Angan Sengupta is currently working as an Assistant Professor with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Bangalore campus. He has done his PhD from The Dept of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Interest: Public Economics and Labor Economics

Dr. Michael Jones is an Associate Professor, Educator of Economics at the University of Cincinnati, the Executive Director of the Kautz-Uible Economics Institute, and the Academic Director for the MS Applied Economics Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Notre Dame.

Interest: International Development, Common Property resources, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources Management, International Relations, Management Issues

Dr. Bidisha Banerji is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at IILM Institute of Higher Education, New Delhi. She has earned her PhD and MPhil in Public Policy and Public Administration from The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Interest: Research and Teaching in Industrial Organization, Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation

Dr. Vidhisha Vyas is a Professor of Economics at IILM University Gurugram. She earned a Ph.D. degree in Economics (specialization in Mergers and Acquisitions) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Interest: History of capitalism in India, Informal Labor Process, Political Economy of the Mass Media, Teaching Economics

Dr. Rahul De is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the School of Arts and Sciences. He has received his PhD in economics from the University of Hyderabad.

Interest: Sociology of Organizations, Sociology of Communities, Qualitative Research, Disaster Management, Human Resource Management, Livelihood and Sustainability

Dr. Priya Gupta is an Assistant Professor at Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore, India. She received her Ph. D. in Sociology from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, and University of Mysore.

Interest: Multidisciplinary Research in Education and Economics

Dr. Pushkarni Panchamukhi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore. She earned her PhD from the University of Mumbai as a Senior Research Fellow under the RBI Chair of Political economy.

Interest: Tourism Management and Economics

Ms. Elizaveta Polishchuk is a research scholar at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science in Gödöllő, Hungary. She holds a Master degree in Tourism Management from Eszterhazy Karoly University, Gyöngyös, Hungary.

Interest: Regional development and management, tourism management

Dr. Zoltán Bujdosó is a College Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Development and Farming, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary. He earned a habilitation and a Ph.D. degree in Geography from The University of Debrecen.

Interest: Economic role of natural resources, Economic potentials of rural areas, Resources and sustainability

Dr. Róbert Magda is Distinguished Professor at Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Institute of Economics and an extraordinary professor at School of Management Sciences Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, North-West University, South Africa.

Interest: Green marketing, sustainability, consumer’s pro-environmental behaviour and environmental concern

Ms. Farheen Naz is a research scholar at Institute of Economics, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary. She holds a master’s degree in Agriculture Economics and Business Management.

Interest: Corporate education, Leadership, Management, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources

Mr. Shivaan Munnisunker is currently a PhD scholar at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Hungary. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Business Administration and Management. His focus areas for his thesis is Artificial Intelligence in Business Decision Making.

Interest: Management Information Systems, SQL and PYTHON

Prof. Maria Sabastin currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus. He started his career with Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru campus, and now he is pursuing Ph.D. in the area of Health Care Management.

Interest: Postmodern Feminism

Dr. Divya Pradeep is an associate professor with the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences. She has a Ph.D. from Mahatma Gandhi University and completed her MA from the University of Calicut. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “Social Capital and Labour Market Outcomes - A Study of the Information Technology Industry in Karnataka”

Interest: Economics of the Social Sector

Dr. Rajeshwari U.R. is an assistant professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences at Christ University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Karnataka University. She has published in journals such as the Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, Elementary Education Online, Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences among others

Interest: Innovation Economics

Dr. Namrata Singha Roy is an assistant professor with the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Christ University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. Her works appear in journals such as Sustainability, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Indian Journal of Human Development, Arthaniti - Journal of Economic Theory and Practise.

Interest: Migration & Uneven Development

Dr. Rajib Sutradhar is an assistant professor with the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Christ University. He holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He has contributed to journals such as World Development, Economic & Political Weekly, International Journal of Rural Management, Agricultural Economics.

Interest: Secularisation Hypothesis

Dr. Joshy K J is an Associate Professor & amp, the Head of the Department of Economics, CHRIST (deemed to be university), Bangalore, India. He holds a master’s degree in Economics, and a master’s degree in

Business Administration (MBA). His research interests include

areas related to economic growth, international trade, developmental

issues, and economics of religion.

Interest: Neuro Economics

Dr. Adaina K.C. is an assistant professor with the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Christ University. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT, Madras and his research contributions appear in journals such as Indian Journal of Human Development, Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research among others.

Interest: Economic Analytics

Dr. Rittu Susan Varkey is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, School of Sciences, Christ University. She completed her Ph.D. from Central University of Tamil Nadu and her research-contributions appear in the Journal of Public Affairs, Journal of Critical Reviews, International Journal of Applied Business & Economic Research among others.

Interest: New Institutional Economics

Dr. Anu Singh is an assistant professor with the School of Law. She completed her doctoral studies from Chattrapathi Shahuji Maharaj University and her masters from Lucknow University. She has published in journals such as Restaurant Business, International Journal of Physiology, Nutrition and physical education, International Journal of Science and Research among others

Interest: Secularisation Hypothesis

Prof. Manoj Morais is an adjunct faculty and PhD scholar at department of Economics, CHRIST (deemed to be university), and Bangalore, India. He holds a masters degree in Economics, Post graduate certificate in Marketing Research and Analytics and Master of Philosophy in Economics.