‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounter with Identity/Differences’

Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) collaborated with Quaid-i-Azam University’s School of Economics to organize a lecture titled ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounter with Identity/Differences’ on February 20, 2019.

The lecture was delivered by Dr Nitasha Kaul, a renowned multidisciplinary academic and economist of a British-Kashmiri descent who is also an associate professor of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster, London. She was visiting Islamabad to attend an international seminar which was organized by IPS a day earlier.

Delivering her lecture, Dr Kaul said that the issues of politics were deeply connected to economics whereas economics had become a branch that could not be challenged. The economics’ rationality had become a new ‘common sense’ which cannot be judged. There however is a need to question how much of it was actually rational and how much of it was socially ethical. These questions moreover should be rooted into subjective evaluation and values, and not with numbers, mathematics and physics.

Alogside Dr Kaul, the session was also addressed by Dr Anwar Shah, assistant professor, School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and Ikram-ul-Haq, IPS Associate and CEO, Centric Consulting, Islamabad.