Arthanomics doesn't exist in isolation — it's built on the foundation of a college known for its academic culture and a department that treats economics as something to be practised, not just studied.
Arthanomics is India's largest and biggest Business and Economics Festival, held every year to give students a stage where classroom economics meets real-world decision-making. 2026 marks its 14th edition, running across three days — 4th, 5th and 6th August 2026 — with events spanning case studies, simulated markets, policy debate and strategy competitions.
Every event is designed by students, for students — built around the idea that economics is best learned by being argued, modelled, negotiated and occasionally lost at the buzzer.
Arthanomics is organised and run by the Department of Economics at Jai Hind College — a department that anchors the festival's academic rigour, from designing event briefs to bringing in judges and speakers from the world of business and policy.
The department's committee of student organisers works through the year to plan, fund and execute the festival, treating it as their own applied economics project as much as a college event.
Jai Hind College, located in Churchgate, Mumbai, is the host institution for Arthanomics — providing the campus, community and academic backing that has let the festival grow into what it is today. The college's culture of student-led societies and festivals is what made an event on the scale of Arthanomics possible in the first place.
A festival that has grown edition after edition into India's biggest of its kind.
From boardrooms to trading floors to debate courts — one campus, many economies.
Conceived, organised and executed entirely by the Department of Economics committee.