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Capitalist
Trap for Scientific Advances |
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Mar
18th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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There
is a paradox at the core of the efflorescence of science that
has occurred over the last millennium. In essence this efflorescence
has the potential to increase human freedom immensely. |
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Subtle
War at the WTO |
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Mar
7th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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At
the time of writing, the 13th ministerial meet of the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) is under way in Abu Dhabi. Among
the many issues that are being discussed are two of concern
for less developed countries generally and India in particular. |
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On
the Fuss over US Interest Rates |
Mar
19th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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Discussions
on macroeconomic policy in the US and other high income countries
tend to focus overwhelmingly on central banks’ interest rate
adjustments, with little clarity on what impact those changes
have domestically. |
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Making
Sense of the Latest Consumption Survey |
Mar
5th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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Even
though the latest consumption survey is not comparable with
earlier surveys, and the full data have not yet been released,
some preliminary results point to significant inequality in
consumption. |
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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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Budget
2023-24 |
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Budget
2023-24: Neither growth nor welfare friendly |
Feb
8th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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If
we ignore the hype that accompanies and follows the presentation
of the Centre's annual budget, there are principally two
strands in it that have attracted attention.
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Budget
2023-24: Ignoring the economy's basic problem |
Feb
6th 2023, Prabhat Patnaik |
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The
most outstanding feature of the Indian economy today is
the sluggish increase in real consumption expenditure. Between
2019-20 and 2022-23 for instance the per capita real consumption
expenditure has grown by less than 5 per cent which is less
than the rate of growth of the gross domestic product.
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