November 2017Curriculum Vitae
Ramaa Vasudevan
Address: Dept of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1771
Email:
Phone: 970-491-6075 (off)
Education:
Ph.D, Economics at The New School for Social Research, New York, 2006
M. Phil in Applied Economics, Center for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 1990
MA in Economics, Center for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 1988
BA (Honors) in Economics, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India, 1986
Research and Teaching Fields
International Trade and Finance, , International Financial Systems, Marxist Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Development Economics , Gender and Feminist economics.
Teaching Positions
Assistant Professor Economics Department, Colorado State University, Aug 2007 -
Assistant Professor (term) Barnard College, Columbia University: 2006-7
Adjunct Teaching Positions in the US (2002-2006):
Social Science Department, The New School, New York, in Fall 2002, Summer 2003, and Fall 2004.
Graduate Program of International Affairs, The New School, New York in Spring 2003.
Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, in Spring 2004; Spring, 2005; and the Academic year 2005-6
Senior Lecturer in Economics,PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India: 1997- 2001
Lecturer in Economics,PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India: 1990-1997
Dissertation:
Phd: International Trade, Finance and Money: Essays in Uneven Development
MPhil: Agrarian Change and Labor Markets: A study of two districts in Eastern U.P. circa 1900-1950
Publications.
Books:
Things fall Apart: From the Crash of 2008 to the long slump, Sage: India, 2013
Journal Articles:
The significance of Marx’s theory of Money”, Economic and Political Weekly 52, 37, 2017.
Finance and Distribution: Revisiting Wage-led and Profit led Growth”, Review of Keynesian Economics. 5,1 78-932016
Finance, Distribution and Accumulation: A Circuit of Capital Model with a Managerial Class”Metroeconomica 67, 2 397-428, 2015
QE through the prism of the Barings Crisis in 1890: Central Banks and the International Money Market, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 37, 1, 2014
Capitalists, Workers, and Managers: Wage Inequality and Effective Demand, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 30, 120-131. 2014. (with Daniele Tavani)
Profits Technology and Distribution”,Cambridge Journal of Economic; Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 57-89, 2013. ( with Deepankar Basu)
Terms of Trade, Competitive Advantage, and Trade Patterns,”Review of Political Economy 24(2), pp 183-202, 2012
Reforming the International Financial System: Core and Periphery Issues and the Dollar Standard Ekonomiaz, Basque Economic Journal (Special Issue: The Financialization of the Economy), 2010
Financial Intermediation and Fragility: The Role of the Periphery”, International Review of Applied Economics 2010
From the Gold Standard to the Floating Dollar Standard: An appraisal in the light of Marx’s theory of money, Review of Radical Political Economy 2009
Dollar Hegemony, Financialization and the Credit Crisis”, Review of Radical Political Economy 41,3 2009
The Global Meltdown: Financialization, dollar hegemony and the subprime market collapse, Special Issue on the Financial Crisis, Economic and Political Weekly44, 13. (reprinted in Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Essays from Economic and Political Weekly Sameeksha Trust, Orient Black Swan India)
The Borrower of Last Resort: International Adjustment and Liquidity in Historical Perspective, Journal of Economic IssuesDec, 2008
Book Chapters:
The Accumulation of Capital, The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics, edited by T.H Jo, L Chester and C D’ippoliti, Routledge, 2017.
The Dollar Standard and Imperialism, Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, London Palgrave Macmillan 2015.
Core-Periphery Asymmetry, Triangular Adjustment Patterns and the Export of Fragility: A Stock-Flow Consistent Model” in Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives (ed) A. Deshpande, Oxford University Press. 2007
Other:
The International Gold Standard, entry in The Encyclopaedia of Central Banking, (ed) LP. Rochon and S Rossi, Edward Elgar 2015
A Comment on Profits without Production, Dialectical Anthropology.
‘Libor’ing under the market illusion, Monthly Review 2013
The Credit Crisis: Is the International Role of the Dollar at stake?” Monthly Review2009
Finance, Imperialism and the Hegemony of the Dollar, Monthly Review.(A Chinese translation of this article appeared in International Social Science, 2008)
Accumulation by Dispossession in India, Economic and Political Weekly 2008 43(11) (Book Review)
Debt, Hegemony and Globalization, Economic and Political Weekly 2006 41(8). (Book Review)
Honors
EXIM BankInternational Economic Development Research Annual Award, India 2009
New School Dissertation Fellowship (2005-6)
Taraknath Das Foundation Fellowship (2003-4)
Shwartz (Research Assistant) Fellowship, (2002-3) Center For Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research
Gordon Award for Student Paper in Economics (2002-3)
Prize Fellowship (2001-2003), Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, New School University
Other Research
Research Consultant UN-DESA (2002):
I authored a background paper for a workshop on “Social Development Policy in the Least Developed Countries of Asia and the Pacific” This paper was written to help facilitate policy formation for social development in Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma and the Pacific Island countries.
Research Assistant at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis, 2002-3:
I helped organize the Shwartz conference on “Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade” at the New School University, April 18, 2003
Membership:
Eastern Economists Association, Union for Radical Political Economists, International Development Economists Association, Gender and Macroeconomics International Working Group.
Editorial Board
Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics
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Presentations
2017 Shadow Money in the Nineteenth century, Intersections of Finance and Society, City, University of London, London
The internationalization of the renminbi and the evolution of China’s monetary policy” Eastern Economists Association Conference, New York,
2016 The Polarization of the Managerial Class, University of Denver, Department of Economics, Denver, Colorado, United States,
Assessing Sustainable Development Goals, Hope for the Future: Critical Engagement with SDGs, International Programs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States,
Finance and Distributio, Post-Keynesian Conference, Kansas City, Kansas, United States,
China's Dilemma, Post Keynesian Conference Kansas City, Kansas, United States,
China and the Global Economy, Vietnam Peace and Justice Foundation, Hanoi, Hanoi, United States,
Issues before the Women's Movement in USA and India, Vietnam Women's Union, Hanoi, Vietnam
Finance and Distribution, Eastern Economists Association, Washington, District of Columbia, United States,
2015 Quantitative Easing in the light of the Barings Crisis: Jawaharlal Nehru University India (Invited seminar)
The Current Financial Crisis in China Hindu College, Delhi University (Invited talk) September 2015
The Current Financial Crisis in China, Aryabhatt College Delhi University (Invited talk) October 2015
2014 Capitalists, Workers and Managers : Wage Inequality and effective demand, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Future of Heterodox Economics, ROPE Conference, Great Malvern, UK
The Managerial Class and Inequality in a Circuit of Capital Framework, Eastern Economists Association Conference, Boston
The Managerial Class and Inequality in a Circuit of Capital Framework, Advanced Political Economy Workshop, Wesleyan University, Middletown.
The Future of Heterodox Economics, ESU Symposium, New School
The Current Economic Crisis: A Marxist A View: Public lecture, Center for Marxist Studies, Delhi
2013 Managerial Capitalism, finance and the contradictions of the neoliberal phase of capitalism, Eastern Economists Association, New York
Managerial Capitalism, finance and the contradictions of the neoliberal phase of capitalism , Historical Materialism Conference, New York
QE through the prism of the Barings Crisis in 1890: Central Banks and the International money markets, invited lecture at Dept of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Capitalists, Workers and Managers : Wage Inequality and effective demand, Advanced Political Economy Workshop, UMASS – Amherst.
2012 Profits, Technology and Distribution: Understanding the Current Crisis, , Political Economy and the Outlook for Capitalism, Joint AHE- IIPPE- FAPE conference, Paris
Capitalists, Workers and Managers: A three Class Goodwin Model, Political Economy and the Outlook for Capitalism, Joint AHE- IIPPE- FAPE conference, Paris (Joint presentation with Daniele Tavani)
Financialization, managers and the current crisis, invited talk at the Viet Nam Peace & Development Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam ( Invited lecture)
QE through the prism of the Barings Crisis in 1890: Central Banks and the International money markets, Eastern Economists Association, Boston
Capitalists, Workers and Managers: A three Class Goodwin Model, Eastern Economists Association, Boston. (joint presentation with Daniele Tavani)
2011 Macroeconomic perspectives on the Current Crisis, RLA College, Delhi University (Invited Lecture)
Public Debt Finance and Imperialism, World Advanced Political Economy, Amherst, MA
The US Treasury-Federal Reserve and US imperialism: New configurations in response to thecrisis,Historical Materialism Conference, New York
Public Debt Finance and Imperialism, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York
Public Debt Finance and Imperialism, International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth, Brasilia (Invited Lecture)
2010, Public Debt, Fictitious Capital and Imperialism: A reappraisal in the light of Marx’s theory of Money, Political Economy Workshop University of Massachussetts, Amherst (Invited Lecture)
Public Debt Financial Hegemony and Imperialism, Second North American Historical Materialism Conference, New York
The Global Financial Crisis and the Contradictions of the Dollar Standard, AEA-ASSA, Atlanta
Reforming the International Financial System: Core and Periphery Issues AEA-ASSA, Atlanta
2009,International Finance and Uneven Development, Lecture at the award function for the receipt of the EXIM Bank IEDRA award.
Emerging Markets and Private Capital Flows, Eastern Economists Association, New York
Dollar Hegemony, Financialization and the Credit Crisis, AEA-ASSA, San Fransisco
Financial Intermediation and Fragility: the Role of the Periphery, Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, Bilbao, Spain.
2008,The Floating Dollar Standard, the Role of Financialization, Conference on Post-Keynesian Economics, Kansas City.
Gender and Sustainable Development, invited lecture, Massachussets Institute of Technology Program for Woman Studies, Cambridge.
The Floating Dollar Standard: Financialization and the role of credit money in international settlements, Eastern Economic Association Conference, Boston
From the Gold standard to the Floating Dollar Standard, Allied Social Sciences Association Conference, New Orleans.
2007The Borrower of the Last Resort: International Liquidity and Adjustment in Historical Perspectives, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Financial Intermediation and Fragility: The Role of the Periphery, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale on Hudson.
Global Imbalances and the Hegemony of the Dollar, Allied Social Sciences Association Conference, Chicago.
2006 Debt, Hegemony and Global imbalances: Keynesian perspectives on the current international monetary system, Ninth International Post Keynesian Conference, Kansas City.
2005 Financial Intermediation and Fragility: The Role of the Periphery, Annual Conference for Development and Change, Neemrana, India.
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