The Republic Of Hunger & Other Essays

The Republic Of Hunger & Other Essays

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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