Prabhat Patnaik
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A concise theory of historical and contemporary imperialism based on asymmetric production capacities, and the imposition of income deflation on ex-colonized and developing country populations to maintain the value of money under capitalism.
In A Theory of Imperialism, Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik put forward a set of novel ideas on the origins and dynamics of capitalism that differ fundamentally from ‘mainstream economics’ and question the ...
The Hoodlum Years refer to the years of terror and agony that India passed through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency. At the time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the Economic and Political Weekly that tellingly and powerfully portrayed the horror of those years. This volume contains a selection of these essays, written during 1972–75 and between January and April 1977.
The claustrophobic season of 1972–77, ...
This book seeks to impart comprehensive understanding of the major ecological issues, policies and environmental problems. The text is designed to meet the needs of students studying ecology and environmental science. It is a lucid presentation of the fundamental concepts and principles of ecology and environmental science. Extensively illustrated, the book provides an in-depth coverage of major area and introduces the reader with all the information which was ...
The importance of Environmental Biodiversity has tremendously increased in the recent years as the applied aspects of microbiology and biotechnology with reference to environmental issues. These are now the major areas of research today. This book in fourteen chapters will fulfill the need of a textbook on the major aspects of environmental biodiversity. It explores the fundamental issues and emphasizes on the conservation of biodiversity and concerned with ...
The volumes under the series ‘Modern Indian Thinkers will discuss the ideas of one specific author through a series of articles by different scholars.These articles will necessarily be a mix, whose exact nature cannot, and should not, be rigidly fixed beforehand; but the mix will be partly survey, partly criticism, partly located within a deeper problematic and the unveiling of such a problematic, and partly a carrying forward of the thought. The nature of ...
The papers collected in this volume, though based on a certain understanding of the capitalist economy, are by and large not papers on economics. They mainly concern issues of politics and ideology, and are informed by a perception that can be summarized as follows. A capitalist economy is a self-driven or, in the words of Oskar Lange, a ‘spontaneous’ system. State intervention in its functioning, driven by political compulsions, tends to make it ...
This book on environmental science is an extremely well-structured and engaging book for he students and teachers of environmental science, physical science and biology. It maintains the right balance between covering the core theoretical and conceptual issues associated with the subject.The publication presents a comprehensive introductory treatment, ideally edited ad structured in an informal yet substantive style provides an in-depth introduction to the ...