CUET PG Economics Syllabus 2025: Master Your Preparation with Confidence

• Overview of colonial economy
  
  
• Macro Trends: National Income; population; occupational structure.
    

• Agriculture: Agrarian structure and land relations; agricultural markets and institutions – credit, commerce and technology; trends in performance and productivity; famines. Railways and Industry: Railways; the de-industrialization debate; evolution of entrepreneurial and industrial structure; nature of industrialization in the interwar period; constraints to industrial breakthrough; labor relations. 
  
  

• Economy and State in the Imperial Context 
  
  

• The imperial priorities and the Indian economy; drain of wealth; international trade, capital.  
  
  

• Flows and the colonial economy – changes and continuities; government and fiscal policy.  
  
  

• New Economic Policy
  
  

• Public Economics: Public and Private Goods, Externalities, Budget, Deficits, Public Debt, Fiscal Federalism in India.
    

• Taxation: its economic effects; dead weight loss and distortion, efficiency and equity considerations, tax incidence, optimal taxation. 
  

• International Trade Theories: Adam Smith, Ricardo, Heckscher-Ohlin model and New Trade Theories 
  
  

The Indian economy section bridges theoretical knowledge with real-world applications, offering insights into the nation’s economic evolution and policies.