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Deepak Malghan is a chemical engineer and ecological economist at the interface of thermodynamics and scale theory. 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 was an editor at the field's flagship, Ecological Economics (2018-26), where he is now on the editorial board.
Malghan is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, where he conducts translational research on urban hydrology.
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 (Citius, Altius, Fortius: A History of How the World Became Efficient) that develops the global history of the modern idea of efficiency.
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