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Economics
Nobel: No surprises |
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| Oct
28th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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| The
Sveriges Riksbank Prize, the Nobel for "Economic Sciences",
has always been controversial. This is true of the 2024 award
to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson as well. |
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| The
Dialectics of Wealth and Poverty |
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| Oct
28th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| This
year's Nobel Prize in economics (the Riksbank Prize to be
more precise) has been awarded to three US-based economists
for their research into what promotes or hinders the growth
of wealth among nations. |
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| The
Angst over China's Slowdown |
| Oct
29th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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While
the evidence that GDP growth in China has slowed is clear,
the dire predictions they have given rise to are exaggerated. |
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| Falling
Shares of Labour Income |
| Oct
15th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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The
latest World Employment and Social Outlook Report (update
for September 2024) from the International Labour Organisation
highlights some disturbing trends. |
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Budget
2024-25 |
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| The
Function of Neoliberal Budgets |
| Aug
5th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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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.
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| Budget
2024-25: A frightening obduracy |
| Jul
29th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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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.
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| Union
Budget 2024-25 — No signs of learning |
| Jul
24th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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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.
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| Young
Scholars Conference Political Economy of Contemporary South
Asia |
| October
13-14, 2023 | Berkeley, United States |
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| Jun
14th 2023. |
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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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