Sripad Motiram
Area of Expertise
Development Economics, Welfare Economics, Microeconomics, Political Economy.
Degrees
PhD, Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Professional Publications & Contributions
Selected Recent Publications (see personal website for the full list)
Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam (2024) “Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities,” Urban Studies (forthcoming).
Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram (2023) “Gender and Work Patterns in Indian Cities: A Socio-Spatial Analysis,” Feminist Economics, 29 (2), pp. 64-95.
Sripad Motiram (2022) “Infrastructure Projects and Sustainable Development,” in Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George Jose (eds.) Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing. London: Routledge.
Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam (2020) “Income Inequality and Income Mobility,” in George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (eds.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons.
Sripad Motiram (2019) “Incomplete Contracts, Power and Efficiency: A Theoretical Analysis,” Studies in Microeconomics, 7 (22), pp. 173-188.
R. Nagaraj and Sripad Motiram (2017) Political Economy of Contemporary India. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Additional Information
Sripad Motiram held positions at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India) before joining University of Massachusetts Boston. He has also been a visiting fellow at King’s College London (UK), World Institute of Development Economics Research (United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland), University of Bologna (Italy) and the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
His research falls into four themes: (i) Urbanization in developing countries, particularly the impact of processes of economic liberalization and globalization, (ii) Welfare Economics: inequality, poverty and unemployment, (iii) Political economy of India, and (iv) Problems with current organizational forms of production and distribution, and alternatives to them. He teaches courses in microeconomics, development economics and international trade.
One of his main non-academic interests is running. He has run the TCS New York Marathon, Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, and Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon. He has also run several shorter races, including half marathons in Boston and Mumbai.