Author: T N Srinivasan
Editor: N S S Narayana
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 559
ISBN/UPC (if available): 019566356X
Description
T N Srinivasan - one of the most eminent Indian economists. Professor Srinivasan's numerous writings cover a wide range of issues concerning developing countries. This selection comprises some of his classic theoretical writings as well as his views on practical economic policies.
The themes covered include optimizing policies of rational individuals, the role of a state within the systems of economic structure, trade and foreign investment and issues and concerns for the Indian economy.
The volume reflects Professor Srinivasan's belief that economics should have the serious purpose of influencing policy. It will greatly interest policy-makers in India and other developing countries and will be a valuable book for students and researchers in economics.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:
A rich collection of diverse ideas of considerable policy import of an economist whose brilliance has been well-acknowledged the world over.
- Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
This book puts together a selected yet remarkably diverse collection of T N Srinivasan's writings, providing insight into a significant range of issues.. A rewarding journey with considerable food for thought based on analysis and logic, not colored by self-interest or politics.
- Indian Review of Books
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Investment Criteria and
Choice of Techniques of Production
Optimal Savings in a
Two-Sector Model of Growth
Optimal intervention to Achieve
Non-Economic Objectives
On the Choice Between Capita and Labor Mobility
Quid Pro Quo Foreign Investment and Welfare:
A Political-Economy-Theoretic Model
Comment on "Two Strategies for Economic Development:
Using Ideas and Producing Ideas" by Romer
Why Developing Countries should
Participate in GATT System
Post-Uruguay Round Issues for Asian Developing Countries
Indian Economic Reforms:
Background, Rationale, Achievements, and Future Prospects
India's Development Strategy,
Privatization, and Deregulation
Income Distribution and the Macro economy:
Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Database for Development Analysis:
An Overview
Hunger: Defining it, Estimating its Global
Incidence, and Alleviating It
Destitution: A Discourse
Agricultural Backwardness Under
Semi-Feudalism: Comment
Rationing, Spillover, and Interlinking in Credit Markets:
The Case of Rural Punjab
Dynamics of Endogenous Growth
Development in the Context of Rapid Population Growth:
An Overall Assessment
Nuclear Pover and Economic Development: India
Neoclassical Political Economy, the State and Economic Development
Democracy, Markets and Development
Annexe:
In Conversation with T N Srinivasan