Book Launch: Decolonising Economics

Dr Carolina Alves is a trained economist whose work is grounded in Latin American Structuralism, Dependency Theory, Classical Political Economy, Marxian and Kaleckian macroeconomics, and the new Cambridge tradition, especially the contributions of Joan Robinson and Tony Lawson. Positioned firmly within heterodox economics, her research explores Critical Macro-Finance, Structuralist Macroeconomics, the Decolonisation of Economics, and Heterodox Economic Theory.

Nai Lee Kalema is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL IIPP). Her research is supervised by Prof. Rainer Kattel, Professor of Innovation and Public Governance, and Dr. Kate Roll, Associate Professor in Innovation, Development, and Purpose. Nai's doctoral research looks at the global political economy of digital transformation.

Surbhi Kesar is a development and political economist, who works as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. Grounded in Marxian political economy and South-centric critical frameworks, her research engages with labour and informality, structural transformation, and the intersections of identity and social exclusion in India. She also works on the political economy of crises and efforts to decolonise the discipline of economics.

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is Senior Lecturer in International Development at King's College, London. Her works is broadly centered on uneven development, international financial subordination, and critically scrutinizing the Economics discipline itself. She has published on dependency theory, international finance, imperialism, and mining, among other topics. She is on the board of the Association for Heterodox Economic and Diversifying and Decolonising Economics.