Ishan Anand is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His areas of interest are inequality, caste, agriculture, and development. As a recipient of the World Bank Robert S McNamara fellowship, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before joining IIT Delhi, he taught at Ambedkar University Delhi and O P Jindal Global University.
Contact Information
Email: ianand@iitd.ac.in
Office: MS602 A (5th floor), MS Building, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Phone: 01126548767 (O)
Research Areas
Inequality; caste; economic history; history of economic thought; agriculture; political economy
Academic Background
PhD (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2019
Employment History
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, July 2022 - present
Assistant Professor of Economics, Jindal Global Law School, O P Jindal Global University, 2020-2022
Assistant Professor (Visiting), Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, 2018-2019
Publications
Anand, Ishan and Moon, Saket, Economics of Caste in Ambedkar (May 6, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4818359 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4818359
Anand, Ishan (2024).Book review: Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies.
Anand, Ishan and Rishabh Kumar (2023). The Sky and the Stratosphere: Wealth Concentration in India During the Last (Lost) Decade. Review of Income and Wealth, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12661
Ishan Anand, Anjana Thampi & Vamsi Vakulabharanam (2023) Wealth inequality: the Indian case, Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2023.2212898
Anand, Ishan (2021). Agricultural growth and distress in India’s post-liberalization era,
in The Handbook of Post-Reform Indian Economy, Rajesh Raj S. N. and Komol Singha
(eds.), Routledge, pp. 35-53
Anand, Ishan and Anjana Thampi (2021). The crisis of extreme inequality in India. Indian
Journal of Labour Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00335-9
Anand, Ishan and Rohit Azad (2019). India’s slowdown. Economic and Political Weekly,
54(41), pp. 11–16.
Banerjee, Arindam and Ishan Anand (2019). The NDA-II regime and the worsening
agrarian crisis. In A Quantum Leap in the Wrong Direction?, by Rohit Azad, Shouvik
Chakraborty, Srinivasan Ramani and Dipa Sinha (eds.). Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan,
pp. 66-88
Anand, Ishan (2019). Book review: Neo-liberalism, development and deprivation in India.
Economic and Political Weekly, 54(35), pp. 26–27.
Anand, Ishan (2019). Book review: International labour organisation, India wage report: Wage policies for decent work and inclusive growth. Indian Journal of Human
Development, 13(1), pp. 117–119.
Anand, Ishan (2016). Dalit emancipation and the land question. Economic and Political
Weekly, 51(47), pp. 12–14.
Anand, Ishan and Anjana Thampi (2016). Recent trends in wealth inequality in India.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(50), pp. 59-67
Popular Articles
Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax Deccan Herald 1June 2023
How rich are India’s richest – and how poor are the rest? Hindustan Times 16 Mar 2022
How to define a farmer The Indian Express 11 Nov 2021
Growing Distress and a Falling Unemployment Rate 13 Sep 2021
A disconcerting picture behind the headline numbers The Hindu 3 Aug 2021
The Pandemic of Extreme Inequality Global Research Programme on Inequality, University of Bergen, Norway 14 Jan 2021
Diluting laws will mean more casual labour – and that’s not a good thing The Wire 26 May 2020
India’s children are not getting the nutrition they need. Here is a measure that could help Scroll.in 21 Dec 2020
Less than a third of Indians go to public hospitals for treatment Livemint 4 May 2020
Locking out the Working Poor The India Forum 16 April 2020
Protecting India’s most vulnerable may be key to lockdown exit Livemint 13 Apr 2020
Affordable education still out of reach for Indians Hindustan Times 12 Jan 2020
The stark reality of India’s self-employed Livemint 1 Oct 2019
Dominance of onions on veggie platter explains price angst Hindustan Times 1 Oct 2019
A third of ‘skilled youth’ in India jobless: Official survey Livemint 8 Aug 2019
Most regular jobs in India don’t pay well: PLFS Livemint 7 Aug 2019
Why problems in the agrarian economy need long term solutions Moneycontrol 12 Jun 2019
Will Congress’ NYAY really mean justice for the poor? The Wire 26 Mar 2019
Who is bearing the burden of India’s rising unemployment? The Wire 28 Jan 2019
Modi government’s ‘historic’ MSP hike is nothing more than a band-aid for farmers The Wire 5 Jul 2018
Economics, not religion, drives ownership of cattle in India Livemint 11 Jul 2017
Before universal basic income, we must first get social spending basics right The Wire 11 Feb 2017
Union budget 2017-18: Urgent need for an improved farm debt waiver schemeThe Wire 30 Jan 2017
India’s non-MBBS healers Livemint 22 Jan 2016
Why PhDs want to be peons Livemint 13 Jan 2016
Who are the beef eaters in India? Livemint 20 Oct 2015
Projects
Collaborative research project on ‘Wealth Inequality and Elites in India’ led by Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Honours
Ruddar Datt Memorial best paper award at the 61st Annual Conference, Indian Society
of Labour Economics, Patiala 2019
World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
October 2016 – March 2017
Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission 2013
Teaching Areas
Development, political economy, stratification economics