Deepankar Basu and Tania Li: Rethinking issues of labour and precarity under contemporary capitalism

Plenary with Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Tania Li (University of Toronto) at the 24th Annual AHE conference, July 2022.

Deepankar Basu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on three areas: long run evolution of capitalist economies with a focus on issues of profitability, capital accumulation and technical change; various aspects of economic development in India including nutrition, food security, the informal sector, employment, and electoral outcomes; various topics in applied econometrics, including bias of OLS estimators. His book, The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He has published many articles in peer reviewed journals.

Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (with Pujo Semedi, Duke University Press 2021), Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014), Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, labour, class,capitalism, development, resources and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. https://www.taniali.org/

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