Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam

Ragupathy's research focuses on the interface between computation and economics, economic dynamics, discrimination, causal inference, history and methodology of economics.

Staff details

Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam

Position

Professor of Economics

Department

Institute of Management Studies

Email

r.venkatachalam (@gold.ac.uk)

Dr Ragupathy Venkatachalam joined the Institute of Management Studies in 2016. He has previously taught economics at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India and worked as a research fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Economics Research Center at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Trento, Italy and a European Masters in Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg, University of Bologna and Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III. He has an MSc in Economics from the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India and a BA (Hons) in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India. He also serves as the associate editor of Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics].

His broad research areas include Endogenous Business Cycle Theory, Computable Economics, Behavioural Economics, Agent-Based Computational Economics and History of Economic Thought. His research focuses on the algorithmic modes of theorizing both at the micro and macro level, incorporating insights from computability theory and constructive mathematics.

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy, ed. 2023. Artificial Intelligence, Learning and Computation in Economics and Finance. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 9783031152931

Chen, Shu-Heng; Kao, Ying-Fang; Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Du, Ye-Rong, eds. 2018. Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation in Economics and Finance. US: Springer.

Edited Journal

Sen, Amartya; Agarwal, Bina; Quadrio Curzio, Alberto; Cerniglia, Floriana; Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Thomson, Jennifer, eds. 2022. Women, Pandemics and the Global South, Economia Politica, 39(1). 1120-2890

Velupillai, Kumaraswamy and Venkatachalam, Ragupathy, eds. 2021. Special Issue: Commemorating the Birth Centennial of Herbert Simon, Computational Economics, 57(3). 0927-7099

Book Section

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Wang, Shu G.. 2023. Computational Thinking in Economics and Finance: Introductory Remarks. In: Ragupathy Venkatachalam, ed. Artificial Intelligence, Learning and Computation in Economics and Finance. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9783031152931

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy. 2022. Resemblances and Disjunctions: Art, Mathematics and Economic Models. In: Stratos Myrogiannis and Constantinos Repapis, eds. Economics and Art Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 103-127. ISBN 9780367615383

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Zambelli, Stefano. 2021. Sraffa, Money and Distribution: a reply to Velupillai. In: Ajit Sinha, ed. A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030472054

Article

Kumar, Sunil Mitra and Venkatachalam, Ragupathy. 2023. Poor economics and its missing mechanisms: The case for causal mediation. Review of Development Economics, ISSN 1363-6669

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Kumar, Sunil Mitra. 2022. Economic Structures and Dynamics: A Morphogenetic View. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 61, pp. 474-485. ISSN 0954-349X

Agarwal, Bina; Venkatachalam, Ragupathy and Cerniglia, Floriana. 2022. Women, pandemics and the Global South: an introductory overview. Economia Politica, 39(1), pp. 15-30. ISSN 1120-2890

Film/Video

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy. 2022. Interview with Prof. Vela Velupillai on Algorithmic Economics.

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy. 2022. Interview with Prof. Anwar Shaikh on Capitalism.

Venkatachalam, Ragupathy. 2022. Interview with Prof. Jayati Ghosh on Development Policy, Gender and Trade.

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • Agent-Based Modelling
  • Computable Economics
  • Endogenous and Nonlinear Business Cycle Theory
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Classical Behavioural Economics (along the lines developed by Herbert Simon)
  • Mathematical Foundations of Economic Theory