SOAS Economics

📌 Join us TODAY at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:

🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸

📍 SOAS, B103

info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn

⚠️ 🚀 WE ARE HIRING‼️

🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social Economics is looking for a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Agri-Food Systems! 🌍

📅 Deadline: 29 October 2025
📍 Location: London, UK

🔗 Find out more and apply here:
👉 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/778339

📌 Join us TOMORROW at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:

🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸

📍 SOAS, B103

info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics with @CSF_SOAS for a seminar with Ms Fundi Tshazibana, Deputy Governor and CEO, Prudential Authority (South African Reserve Bank) on:

🏦 Financial Policy in the Era of the Climate Crisis: An African Perspective ♻️🌍

Info 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3zbdf6

📌 We are proud to announce Dr Yannis Dafermos as the new Head of the Department of Economics at @soasuni.bsky.social ‼️

🌍 In challenging times, strong leadership is more important than ever to guide education and research, and to inspire the next generation of #SOAS economists.

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:

🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸

🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103

info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn

🚀 ⚠️ Last day to apply for the next @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org

💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎

📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 28 September 2025

🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y

📌 The @soasuni.bsky.social @CSF with @cepr_org, IDOS and the University of Cape Town invite submissions of papers for a Workshop on:

♻️ "Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South" 🌍

🔗 apply here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3drk9s7j

📌 The @soasuni.bsky.social @CSF with @cepr.org , IDOS and the University of Cape Town invite submissions of papers for a Workshop on:

♻️ "Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South" 🌍

🔗 apply here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3drk9s7j

🚀 ⚠️ Last days to apply for the next @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org

💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎

📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 26 September 2025

🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y

Decolonising economics: An illustration of the informal economy | Exploring Economics What does decolonising economics mean? Eurocentrism continues to shape the discipline of economics, leading to inaccurate theories that frame Europe’s development as a universal model.

💬 How do we really approach issues in economics from a decolonised vs non-decolonised lens?

Read the last piece of our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Senior Lecturer @surbhikesar.bsky.social on Exploring Economics

🔗 www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/...

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics with RAMP University Network and @CSF_SOAS for a discussion with Dr Abdulkader Nahhas (University of Plymouth) on:

♻️ Can R&D Address the Sustainability Challenge? Evidence from European listed firms 🌎

Info event 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

👏🏽 We are proud to announce that our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Senior Lecturer, Dr. @surbhikesar.bsky.social, has been appointed Associate Editor of the Oxford Development Studies journal. @Oxford Development Studies

YouTube video by TIPS Dialogue Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture: A New New International Economic Order (NNIEO) In A “New” World

📌 Our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang gave this year's Alice Amsden Lecture at APORDE Aporde Alumni Network last week outside Johannesburg - on a 'New New International Order in a 'New World'.

🔗 You can listen to it here 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvv...

Totally inspiring speech by @garyseconomics.bsky.social to our @soasuni.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social graduates. Congratulations to both Gary on his SOAS Doctor of Social Science award and our wonderful graduates. And special shout out to my PHD graduates Dr. Kate and Dr. Buthaina.

📌 Join us TODAY at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Donghyun Park, Asian Development Bank (ADB), chaired by Satoshi Miyamura on:

🌏 Asian Development Policy Report 2025: Harnessing Digital Transformation for Good 🚀

Info event 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycy6ptv2

📌 The @soasuni.bsky.social @CSF with @cepr.org, IDOS and the University of Cape Town invite submissions of papers for a Workshop on:

♻️ "Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South" 🌍

🔗 apply here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3drk9s7j

We have been brainwashed into thinking there is no alternative to free market policy, says Ha-Joon Chang Ha-Joon Chang, professor of economics at SOAS University of London, discusses economic growth and challenges the orthodoxy of economics.

🎤 🌍 Our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang was interviewed by @cnbc.com on challenging the traditions around economics and free market policy. ♻️

🎥 bit.ly/4fPu4tQ

📌 Join us on 2 September at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Donghyun Park (‪@adb.org‬) chaired by Satoshi Miyamura on:

🌏 Asian Development Policy Report 2025: Harnessing Digital Transformation for Good 🚀

Info 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycy6ptv2

🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org

💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎

📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 26 September 2025

🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y

📌 “Austerity shrinks the state and stretches the household, until the latter hangs by a single thread: a line of credit”

📚 In this blog, @lenagempke.bsky.social unpacks how austerity and financialisation push South African women into debt to fund everyday life.

read the blog 🔗 tinyurl.com/4sfwjsc5

🌍 #SOAS #Economics research projects are transforming global thinking on social reproduction, financialisation, macro-financial aspects of development, and the political economy of the #green transition ♻️

🎥 Watch the video ⬇️
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86I...

Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today

📌 Today on @FT our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang on:

📊 Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas 💡

⚠️ The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today 🌍

🔗 www.ft.com/content/9aab...

🚀 Last day to apply for @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme!

💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎

📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025

🔗apply here⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

🚨⚠️ WE ARE HIRING!!! ⚠️🚨

🌍 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Institute is looking for a Research and Communications Fellow📌

✨Join our vibrant academic community at SOAS! 🌏

🔗Apply here ⬇️
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/729237

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics with RAMP University Network and @CSF_SOAS for a discussion with Dr. Rebecca M. Mari (BoE) on:

🌾Weathering the storm: sectoral economic and inflationary effects of floods and the role of adaptation🌎

Info 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

🚨⚠️ WE ARE HIRING!!! ⚠️🚨

The Department of @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics is looking for 3 Associate Lecturers in Economics! 📌

Apply here ⬇️ vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/725353

🌏 New in World Development, @rosaabraham6 & our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Senior Lecturer @surbhikesar.bsky.social study the trajectories that characterise Indian labour market, & identify 7 dominant ones.

How do they 👀?🧵

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X25001147

🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme:

💡 High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities 🌎

📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025

🔗 application ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8

Enjoyed attending @worldresources.bsky.social and @soaseconomics.bsky.social workshop on how to translate resilience and adaptation benefits into modeling and development finance actions, relevant for eg @ebrd.bsky.social that’s working on its Green Economy Transition Approach.