Employment and Development: Essays from an Unorthodox Perspective

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Amit Bhaduri’s distinction as an economic theorist lies in challenging mainstream theory in a precise yet compelling way. The essays in this collection, written by the author over the last quarter century, mark a fresh approach to one of the most important economic problems of our time. Why poverty and employment, as two sides of the same problem, appear and persist, and are often bypassed by the process of development? The author looks at this problem from a multidimensional perspective. In the first section he discusses some of the theoretical issues involved, and point to oversights in standard theorizing on the subject. The second section draws out the connection between development of a predominantly agrarian economy and unemployment. The final section deals with the problem in the context of transitional economies of east Europe and draws lessons. In particular the essays highlight the errors from the use of orthodox theories relied on by the IMF and the World Bank. By rejecting the uncritical and medical acceptance of globalization as the remedy to all evils, the author invites the reader to think independently, and thereby stimulates argument and debate. The book will be of immense interest to graduate students of economics, researchers, professional economists, and men and women of practical affairs in economics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amit Bhaduri

Amit Bhaduri is Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi. He has been internationally selected professor (of 'clear fame') in Pavia University, Italy. Professor Bhaduri has taught or been associated with many universities and research institutions in a career spanning over thirty years. these include Presidency College and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, in India. He has also taught in more than a dozen universities in Europe, United States, and Central America and been a Fellow of Institutes of Advanced Studies in Europe. Educated in Calcutta, Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he has published nearly seventy technical papers, is on the editorial board of international journals, and authored five books. His books include Unconventional Economic Essays (OUP, 1993), and On the Border of Economic Theory and History.

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Title
Employment and Development: Essays from an Unorthodox Perspective
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0195680820
Length
xiii+237p., Figures; References; Index; 25cm.
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