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Isabelle Guérin

Isabelle Guérin is senior research fellow at IRD-CESSMA, associate at the French Institute of Pondicherry, and member of the School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2019–20). She specializes in the political and moral economics of money, debt, and finance. Her current work focuses on the financialization of domestic economies, looking at how financialization produces new forms of inequalities and domination, but also alternative and solidarity-based initiatives. icon

India in COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold

By Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Ferry, Isabelle Guérin, & Govindan Venkatasubramanian

The lockdown had terrible consequences on India’s informal economy, and will deepen the socioeconomic inequalities that divide the country.

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