Labour, imperialism, and finance: my journey as an economist

Ramaa Vasudevan

Chapter 5 in The Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics, 2025, pp 81-92 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: My intellectual journey began through an engagement with questions around the working and living conditions of industrial and rural labour in India and the possible paths to socio-economic transformation. It went on to grapple with the implications of the evolving mechanisms of imperial power in shaping the development trajectories in the periphery. In the process, I was drawn to studying the contradictory dynamics of finance that are integral to the engines of capital accumulation and, at the same time, continually propelling the forces of polarization and destabilization. In this chapter, I trace how I came to pursue these questions and how I found the most potent analytical tools to address these questions in Classical, Marxian, and Post-Keynesian methodological frameworks. It also provides an opportunity to acknowledge at least some of my vast intellectual debts.

Keywords: Finance; Imperialism; Labour; Marx; Minsky; Money View (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035329304
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