Ramaa Vasudevan is currently a visiting assistant professor at Barnard College, New York. She has taught in the Sustainable International Development program at Brandeis University and at PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. Her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil., Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India. Her main research interests are the macroeconomics and political economy of development. She has been active in the civil rights and women’s movement in India. The relation between development and democracy is in important aspect of her research interests.