Maria Bach @mvsbach
Post-doctorate
Université de Lausanne, social and political sciences department
International Diffusion of Economic Ideas Indian Economics Marginalised Economists and Economic Ideas
Romesh Chunder Dutt Mahadev Govind Ranade Dadabhai Naoroji
About
Maria is an historian of economics interested in how economists from what we call the Global South today produced economic ideas. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in International Political Economy on the first generation on modern Indian economists. She has a forthcoming book, Relocating Development Economics: The first generation of modern Indian economists with Cambridge University Press.
Her new project is on the history of national accounting in India, Nigeria and Argentina. These case studies of India in the 1870s, Argentina in the 1910s and Nigeria in the 1960s have rarely been studied and have never been compared. The idea is to ask what local economists wanted to know about the development of their country and how to measure it. What they counted can tell us about their different visions of the economy and how these visions influenced the management of the colonies. Preliminary results show how national accounting was used as a tool of emancipation to build nations and obtain international recognition and aid.
She hosts and produces the History of Economic Thought Podcast, Ceteris Never Paribus.
Before starting her PhD, Maria was a consultant at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris working on a project entitled New Approaches to Economic Challenges. Maria completed her MSc in Development Economics in 2012 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and her BA in International Economics and Applied Mathematics at the American University of Paris in 2011
Publications
2024
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Bach, M. (2024). Relocating Development Economics. Cambridge University Press.
2023
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Bach, M. (2023). Marginalised Actors of Knowledge: Evidence from India. In J. Östling, A. Nilsson Hammer, & D. Larsson Heidenblad (Eds.), Forms of Knowledge (pp. 121–138). Nordic Academic Press.
2022
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Bach, M. (2022). Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography. History of Political Economy, 54(5), 997–999.
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Bach, M. (2022). Positive Discourse Analysis: A method for the history of knowledge? In C. A. Lerg, J. Östling, & J. Weib (Eds.), Participatory Knowledge (Vol. 1, pp. 203–224). De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Bach, M. (2022). Poverty Thoery in Action: How Romesh Chunder Dutt’s European travels affected his poverty theory, 1868-1893. History of Political Economy, 54(3), 529–546.
2021
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Bach, M. (2021). A Win-Win Model of Development: How Indian Economics Redefined Universal Development from and at the Margins. Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
2020
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Bach, M., & Morgan, M. S. (2020). Measuring Difference? The United Nations’ Shift from Progress to Poverty. History of Political Economy, 52(3), 539–560.
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Bach, M. (2020). Phd thesis summary: Redefining universal development from and at the margins: Indian economies’ contribution to development discourse, 1870-1905. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 13(1), 139–147.
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Bach, M. (2020). Ajit Sinha and Alex M. Thomas (eds), Pluralistic Economics and Its History. Œconomia, 10-2, 351–357.
2018
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Bach, M. (2018). What Laws Determine Progress? An Indian Contribution to the Idea of Progress Based on Mahadev Govind Ranade’s Works, 1870–1901. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(2), 327–356.
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Morgan, M. S., & Bach, M. (2018). Measuring development- from the UN’s perspective. History of Political Economy, 50(S1).