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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · 2d

3 days of exciting talks on history of economic thought coming up in Delhi @ JNU & IIT-Delhi later this week. 🪻

Close to 100 papers will be presented at #ISHET2025 on Indian Economic Thought, Teaching HET, Macroeconomics, Sraffa, Ambedkar, Smith, Khaldun & more.

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · 8d

It is that time of the year when I grade the book reviews submitted by my students in the MA HET course--an elective for MA Economics students.

& along with Economic History & Political Economy, HET is compulsory for BA Economics students. ✨

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 27d

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists by Maria Bach" by Alex M. Thomas. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists by Maria Bach

(Forthcoming Article)

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Nicola Giocoli @ngiocoli.bsky.social · Jul 11

With the customary couple of months of delay (🙄), issue 1-2025 of HEI - History of Economic Ideas has been published.
TOC is in the image below.
hei.scholasticahq.com
www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=61
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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jul 22

This paper has been in the making for a very long time, and am glad it has finally found its place in EPW. A special note of gratitude to SAU colleagues & students.

www.epw.in/journal/comm...

If you do not have access, please DM me.

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jul 11

"The strength that Macroeconomics: An Introduction has in comparison to existing textbooks on macroeconomics is in its examples taken from the real world, both from India and across the globe." @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Book Review: Macroeconomics: An Introduction by Alex M. Thomas - LSE Review of Books

Kaibalyapati Mishra reviews Macroeconomics by Alex M. Thomas, which offers a new introduction to macroeconomics, set in the context of the Indian economy.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jul 9

More than 100 Years of Ambedkar’s The Problem of the Rupee: Insights, ideas and intellectual rigour still awaiting discovery developingeconomics.org/2025/07/08/m...

More than 100 Years of Ambedkar’s The Problem of the Rupee: Insights, ideas and intellectual rigour still awaiting discovery

It has been more than a century since Ambedkar’s second disquisition in the discipline of economics was published; The problem of the rupee: its origin and its solution was published in the year 19…

developingeconomics.org

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 30

We have already received over 100 abstract submissions & close to 50 applications for the YSI pre-conference workshop.

The submissions close at midnight today (IST).

Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 13

The deadline for submitting abstracts to ISHET 2025 at IIT Delhi is 2 weeks away. All papers on HET are welcome.

A YSI pre-conference workshop is scheduled on 10th October at JNU.

Submit here: www.economiga.org/ishet-2025

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 13

The deadline for submitting abstracts to ISHET 2025 at IIT Delhi is 2 weeks away. All papers on HET are welcome.

A YSI pre-conference workshop is scheduled on 10th October at JNU.

Submit here: www.economiga.org/ishet-2025

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 13

The deadline for submitting abstracts to ISHET 2025 at IIT Delhi is 2 weeks away. All papers on HET are welcome.

A YSI pre-conference workshop is scheduled on 10th October at JNU.

Submit here: www.economiga.org/ishet-2025

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 10

Pleased to announce this upcoming online lecture series by Chirashree Das Gupta, organised by the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET).

To know more about ISHET: sites.google.com/view/ishet/h...

Register now 👇🏾

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 5

Only came to know recently that my @cambridgeup.bsky.social macroeconomics book was listed in the @aeajournals.bsky.social Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)!

www.jstor.org/stable/27183...

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 5

Only came to know recently that my @cambridgeup.bsky.social macroeconomics book was listed in the @aeajournals.bsky.social Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)!

www.jstor.org/stable/27183...

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · May 27

Was happy to see my macroeconomics book at the annual ESHET Conference in Turin last week.

Access it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

#ESHET2025 @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 2

cc: @shoet.bsky.social @r-bellofiore.bsky.social @rgbetancourt.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 2

A special issue on HET now out in the Review of Development & Change! 🤩

journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/...

Articles on competition, environmental economics, agrarian question & structural change, village studies & Indian economics, Marx's methodological holism, Marx's framework, women in HET.

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · Jun 1

Really exciting volume of HET articles edited by @alexmthomas.bsky.social for the Review of Development and Change!

journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/...

Review of Development and Change - Volume 30, Number 1_suppl

Table of contents for Review of Development and Change, 30, 1_suppl

journals.sagepub.com

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · May 27

Was happy to see my macroeconomics book at the annual ESHET Conference in Turin last week.

Access it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

#ESHET2025 @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · Apr 25

From the archives: how much was history of economics still taught in US economics graduate programs in 1989.

Are your students more creative and reflexive now that close to 0% of them are offered a class in history of economics?

#econsky

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am still so much in awe of the accessible, intricate & engaging illustrations created by my former student Sahana--currently pursuing a PhD in economics at Stanford--for my macroeconomics book. 🌻

sites.google.com/stanford.edu...

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am still so much in awe of the accessible, intricate & engaging illustrations created by my former student Sahana--currently pursuing a PhD in economics at Stanford--for my macroeconomics book. 🌻

sites.google.com/stanford.edu...

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 21

I am delighted to share the introduction to the SI on HET in the Review of Development and Change. This is perhaps the first ever SI devoted to HET to be published in India.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 21

I am delighted to share the introduction to the SI on HET in the Review of Development and Change. This is perhaps the first ever SI devoted to HET to be published in India.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social @hopecenter.bsky.social

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thank you! 🙂

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 15

As the Hindi translation of my macroeconomics book nears completion, sharing the link to the Tamil one, translated by Ashwath & published by Kalachuvadu.

amzn.in/d/eJk0WzY

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