Author: Amit Bhaduri
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 107
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123745961
Description
Despite almost six decades of India’s independence, dehumanizing poverty afflicts a large section of Indian masses. Is economic liberalization with continuous rolling back of the State the answer? This book, written by one of India’s foremost theoretical economists, is a non-technical manner argues forcefully that this would be the wrong track to follow. In the course of the argument, the author demolishes many conventional economic propositions which rule the academia, the policy makers, the media and the international institutions.
The book demonstrates forcefully why a full employment society with dignity for all citizens is feasible in the near future. It is not at all a utopia. The book, brought out under the new series of the Trust on Popular Social Science, is likely to be a major input into the current debate regarding the feasibility of the guarantee of employment to all in present scenario.
Contents
PREFACE
Development with Dignity - No Utopia
The Market Succeeds and Fails - How, Where, When?
The Interaction of the Economy and the Polity
Development with Dignity-the Defining Issues
For a Different Kind of Development
The Government-can’t-do-it Syndrome of Public Finance
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READINGS