- Home
- profile
- Faculty #45
Deepak Malghan is a chemical engineer and ecological economist at the thermodynamics and scale theory interface. Scale in ecological economics refers to the proportional relationship between the economy and the ecosystem that contains and sustains it. Among other recognitions for his contributions to scale theory, Malghan received the 2015 VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences and the 2023 T N Khoshoo Memorial Award. Malghan has served as an editor at Ecological Economics, the field’s flagship journal, since 2018.
Malghan is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, and his translational ecological economics research has focussed mainly on urban hydrology problems.
Beyond ecological economics, Malghan’s Ecological Political Economy group at IIMB has pioneered new methods for characterizing ethnic inequality and stratification by combining tools and insights from economics, demography, and political science. His current projects apply these methods to study classical and emerging problems in ethnic politics and environmental injustice.
As a historian, Malghan is the co-author of an intellectual biography of J. C. Kumarappa (1892-160), a pioneering Indian ecological thinker and political philosopher (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a book project (provisionally titled Citius, Altius, Fortius: A History of How the World Became Efficient) that develops the global history of the modern idea of efficiency.
Recent Articles (2021 —)
