My research focuses on inequality, climate change, agriculture, history of economic thought and development.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Paul, Amartya, Ishan Anand, and Sarika Chaudhary. “Chronic Unemployment in India.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2026): 1-29. DOI
Anand, Ishan. “Relocating development economics: the first generation of modern Indian economists: by Maria Bach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024, 200 pp.,£ 100 (hardcover), ISBN 9781009438193.” (2026): 418-420. DOI
Anand, Ishan, Anjana Thampi, and Vamsi Vakulabharanam. “Wealth inequality: the Indian case.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement 46.2 (2025): 216-236. DOI
Anand, Ishan, and Rishabh Kumar. “The sky and the stratosphere: Wealth concentration in India during the last (lost) decade.” Review of Income and Wealth 70.3 (2024): 747-765. DOI
Anand, Ishan. “Book review: Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India.” (2024): 267-270. DOI
Anand, Ishan. “Agricultural growth and distress in India’s post-liberalization era.” The Routledge Handbook of Post-Reform Indian Economy. Routledge India, 2021. 35-53.
Anand, Ishan, and Anjana Thampi. “The crisis of extreme inequality in India.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 64.3 (2021): 663-683. DOI
Anand, Ishan. “Neo-liberalism, development and deprivation in India.” Economic & Political Weekly 54.35 (2019): 26-27.
Anand, Ishan. “Book review: International Labour Organisation, India Wage Report: Wage Policies for Decent Work and Inclusive Growth.” (2019): 117-119. DOI
Anand, Ishan, and Rohit Azad. “India’s slowdown: what it is and what can be done.” Economic & Political Weekly 54.41 (2019).
Anand, Ishan, and Anjana Thampi. “Recent trends in wealth inequality in India.” Economic and Political Weekly (2016): 59-67.
Anand, Ishan. “Dalit emancipation and the land question.” Economic and Political Weekly (2016): 12-14.
Working Papers
Anand, Ishan and Moon, Saket, Economics of Caste in Ambedkar (October 08, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4818359 DOI
Fellowships, Awards and Grants
‘Indigenous Knowledge and Customary Practices in Building Community-Oriented and Ecologically Sustainable Development Policies and Programs: A Study of the Patkai Region in Northeast India’ - ICSSR 2024 (Co-PI)
New Faculty Seed Grant - IIT Delhi 2022 (PI)
World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowship — University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016–17
Ruddar Datt Memorial Best Paper Award — Indian Society of Labour Economics, 2019
Junior Research Fellowship — University Grants Commission, 2013