Maanik Nath is Assistant Professor in Economic History. His book Capital Shortage  is published by Cambridge University Press. Capital Shortage won the First Monograph Prize in Economic and Social History in 2024.

Maanik's ongoing work has two strands that explore the root causes of (under)development in nineteenth and twentieth century South Asia. The first investigates geography, institutions and development. This strand includes longitudinal studies of climate risk and agriculture, economic cooperation, as well as the political economy of ecological interventions. The second analyses securities markets and stock exchange development. This strand includes a data-collection effort to construct a century of returns for stocks listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

See Maanik's personal website for more information on his book and other ongoing work.

Maanik is Research Coordinator of the Economic and Social History group, a steering committee member of Inequality Platform, and serves on the Board of the PPE programme.