Over the last decade or so, I have taught PhD, Masters and Undergraduate-level students. I have taught a wide range of courses in the areas of political economy, development studies and development economics. I currently teach two core courses for the MPP program at IIT Tirupati. I was the recipient of the Robert E. Demarest Memorial Teaching Award in 2013 (Dept of Economics, UIUC).
This is a core course in the MPP curriculum offered by the HSS department at IIT Tirupati. It introduces students to economic tools for policy analysis. It covers principles of microeconomics, macroeconomics and political economy.
This is a core course in the MPP curriculum offered by the HSS department at IIT Tirupati. It introduces students to fundamental concepts of public finance and to the institutions that govern public finance policies in India. The course covers topics including social welfare analysis, taxation, public debt, fiscal federalism amongst others.
This course introduces students to conventional and unconventional theories of economic crises. It surveys a wide range of economic theories of instability and crises. It moves on to surveying historical case studies such as the Tulip Mania, the Great Depression, the Latin American Debt Crisis, the Global Financial Crisis (2008), the Cholera Pandemic(1854), the Ebola Outbreak (2013), and the Covid-19 Pandemic (2019). It focuses on the policy tools that are available to the state to deal with crises.
This is a course offered for the PhD program of the HSS department at IIT Tirupati. The course introduce students to both the traditional as well as more contemporary themes in development economics. It equips students with theoretical and empirical tools required for analyzing development issues.