Achin Chakraborty is currently Visiting Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Public Policy Law and Governance, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) from 2013 to 2023. He has research interests in welfare economics, development economics, health economics, and political economy of India. He received Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Riverside, USA. He has published widely in national and international journals. His recent works include Limits of Bargaining: Capital, Labour, and the State in Contemporary India (CUP, 2019) (co-author) and five co-edited books – The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (OUP, 2017), Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State (Springer, 2019), ‘Capital’ in the East (Springer, 2019), Indian Business Groups and other Corporations (Springer, 2023), and Revisiting Inequality: Theoretical and Methodological Advances with Empirical Examples from India, (Routledge, 2024).
