Response of the Defeated: EV protectionism in advanced
economies
Oct 14th 2024, C. P. Chandrasekhar
In early October, in a show of pique, a European Commission proposal to impose additional tariffs of up to 35.3 per cent (on top of the pre-existing 10 per cent) on electrical vehicles (EVs) imported from China, was passed by a majority vote in the European parliament.
Imperialism's Striving for Expansion
Oct 14th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik
The "inevitable striving of finance capital", Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) "to enlarge its spheres of influence and even its actual territory".
Falling Shares of Labour Income
Oct 15th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
The latest World Employment and Social Outlook Report (update for September 2024) from the International Labour Organisation highlights some disturbing trends.
Household Debt Stress: Fear in the "good times"
Oct 1st 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
Growing concern about defaults on unsecured retail loans reflects not just fear about the health of the banking system as a whole, but about the impact that such defaults could have on macroeconomic performance.
Budget 2024-25

The Function of Neoliberal Budgets

Aug 5th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar

With the short-term, frenzied interest that accompanies annual budget presentations in India having ended, it is time to raise issues that were largely ignored in the debate.

Budget 2024-25: A frightening obduracy

Jul 29th 2023, Prabhat Patnaik

There is massive unemployment in the country that especially afflicts the youth; there is a huge and persistent inflation in food prices; there is acute and unprecedented rural distress; there is a crisis in the petty production sector; and income and wealth inequality has reached levels where the whole world is talking about it.

Union Budget 2024-25 — No signs of learning

Jul 24th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar

The mismatch between the problem at hand and what the Budget offers is stark be it welfare or even taking care of key political allies.

Young Scholars Conference Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia
October 13-14, 2023 | Berkeley, United States
Jun 14th 2023.
Our key theme is the political economy of contemporary South Asia. At the core of these transformations are the fraught and so-called "truncated transition," where South Asian societies are not making the transition from farm to factory, but the rise of informal economies, industrial clusters, in-between agrarian-urban and peri-urban spaces force us to rethink familiar transition narratives and to eschew them in favour of more grounded theories.
 

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