Illustrations of Successful Use of Mathematics in Neoclassical Economics In the literature of mainstream (read, neoclassical) economics I can think of three examples of successful use of mathematics whose theorems are verified by proper empirical tests. The first is the…
Lately there has been an aggressive projection of the falling levels of poverty in India, by national as well as international agencies. It is therefore anachronistic that the period from 1993–94 to 2009–10 saw a steady decline of per-capita per-day…
During 1990–2009, India witnessed a very peculiar trend: of declining per capita calorie consumption along with a rise in per capita real income. However, in the survey of 2011–12 there was evidence of a substantial rise in calorie consumption, particularly…
The present paper critically discusses the main features of the economic growth processes during 2003–2015 in Argentina and Brazil, two Latin American countries that witnessed a remarkably positive economic performance during the 2000s decade, except for the 2009 international slowdown.…
Racist attacks against Africans and the latter’s measured reaction made headlines in the Indian media in March–April this year. Responding to the deplorable incidents of violence against African students, the African community in India called for an independent investigation, while…
My twenty-year undergraduate teaching career in Delhi University was long enough for me to have been aware of Biswamoy Pati’s name, and his activist DUTA career. I was in a sense re-introduced to Biswamoy (I always called him that rather…
Prabhat Kumar Shukla, Neel ki Kheti aur Angrezi Raj: Bihar mein Kisano ka Pratirodh 1780–1917 (Hindi), Anamika, New Delhi, 2017, 190 pages + Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary and Index, Rs 550 Most scholarly works in the social sciences in India continue…
The last few weeks have been quite tragic for our journal. We lost our book review editor Biswamoy Pati, a brilliant historian at Delhi University, a popular teacher, and a person of boundless energy who brought young historians together to…
Latin America has been the only continent in which post-neoliberal choices were adopted in a number of countries. After a series of military dictatorships, supported by the United States and ushered in by the neoliberal project, it was not long…
In light of the above observation – reviewing the factors affecting entitlements – it can be argued that the living standard of the organised manufacturing sector workers in India have hardly improved in the last three decades. Additionally, there is…