a
thrust towards free trade and subservientagriculture.
She shows how these policies are causing unprecedented
rural distress and universal hunger in the developing
countries including India. Hers is a voice of
sanity, conscience and true scholarship.
Contents
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Introduction
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The
Ideology of Overpopulation
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The
Costs of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the
Indian Economy
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The
Economic and Demographic Collapse in Russia
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The
Loss of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asia
Must Starve to Feed the West: The Rice Debacle
in the Philippines
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Peasant
Resistance to Globalisation: Chiapas a Symbol
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Mass
Income Deflation, Burgeoning Foodstocks
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Foodstocks and Hunger: Causes of Agrarian
Distress
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The
Republic of Hunger
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Theorising
Food Security and Poverty in the Era of Economic
Reforms
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It
is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up
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Agrarian
Crisis under Neo-Imperialism and the Importance
of Peasant Resistance
About
the Author
Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author
of 'The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy'
(1999); 'Peasant Class Differentiation: A Study
in Method with Reference to Haryana' (1987); 'The
Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism
in India' (1985). She has also edited several
collections including 'Chains of servitude : bondage
and slavery in India' (with Manjari Dingwaney)
and 'The Agrarian Question in Marx and His Successors'. |
