Author: Utsa Patnaik
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818878933X
Description
Utsa patnaik’s book is as much a comment on the state of economics as a discipline today, as on the economic policies that are ruining the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the Third World.
The unifying theme of her essays is the impact on the Third world of the new imperialism in the present era, which takes the form of deflationary neo-liberal ‘economic reforms’, a thrust towards free trade and subservient agriculture.
She shows how these policies are causing unprecedented rural distress and universal hunger in the developing countries including India. Here is a voice of sanity, conscience and true scholarship.
Contents
INTRODUTION
The Ideology of Overpopulation
The Costs of Free Trade
The Economic and Demographic
Collapse in Russia
The Loss of Food security in sub-
Saharan Africa
Asia Must Starve to Feed the West
Peasant Resistance to Globalisation
Mass Income Deflation, Burgeoning
Foodstocks
Foodstocks and Hunger
The Republic of Hunger
Theorising Food Security and Poverty
In the Era of Economic Reforms
It is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up
Agrarian crisis under Neo- Imperialism an
the Importance of Peasant Resistance