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Tag Archives: Economics

Economics


V.S. Seshadri
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: INDIA AND THE WORLD
2023

The book provides a commentary on the relevance of the growing numbers of free trade agreements among different countries in the global economy, with a special reference to India. FTAs have a lot of significance for India. This is not only when India participates in such arrangements with one or the other trade partners but also without direct participation.


Reviewed by: Sunanda Sen

A. K. Bhattacharya
INDIA’S FINANCE MINISTERS: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO EMERGENCY (1947-77)
2023

Being a highly experienced journalist who covered the Finance Ministry for close to three decades, AKB has also been able to focus on the key events of each tenure which shape our recollections and perceptions of the tenure. This releases the book from the tyranny of the ‘one-damned-thing-after-another’ school of history.


Reviewed by: TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

V. Murali
HOP ON HOP OFF: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CREATIVE CHAOS OF MANUFACTURING
2022

V Murali is a veteran who has spent his entire career in manufacturing, dabbling across various roles, and mastering a critical few, which have shaped him into a leader with a proven track record of a string of successes in business. Here, in the book Hop on Hop off, which comes across as his professional journal, he shares the recipe of those successes, from which scores of manufacturing professionals can draw vital lessons on making a turnaround when necessary.


Reviewed by: Shilpi Suman

Paul Tucker
GLOBAL DISCORD: VALUES AND POWER IN A FRACTURED WORLD ORDER
2022

This book is about Geo-Economics (the intersection of economic and geo-political objectives) and self-confessedly examines issues from a Euro-centric, or even at times, from a narrower Anglo-American perspective. It examines what, from this perspective, is the central question which bedevils global policy today: ‘How can liberal democracies maintain their values even as they find themselves interdependent with powers whose traditions and attitudes stand at odds with their own?’


Reviewed by: TCA Ranganathan

C. Rangarajan
FORKS IN THE ROAD: MY DAYS AT RBI AND BEYOND
2022

This book is the story of India’s monetary policy and its economic dilemmas written by a true savant and patriot who had to deal with a whole lot of crises. Dr Chakravarty Rangarajan, until his retirement in 2014, at the age of 82, devoted his entire life to serving the country in one capacity or another. He has been Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India, member of the now abolished Planning Commission, then RBI Governor, the Governor of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, and Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. He is currently the Chairman of the Madras School of Economics.


Reviewed by: TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

Rajesh Veeraraghavan 
PATCHING DEVELOPMENT: INFORMATION POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA
2022

The history of welfare provision in post-Independent India has been replete with stories of failure and leakages. Almost every public welfare programme will throw up a side story on how only a fraction of the largesse has reached the intended beneficiaries. India is known for, what Jean Dreze calls, the ‘percentage system’ under which a fixed part of the money is siphoned off as bribe by a wide range of intermediaries across the system.


Reviewed by: Kalaiyarasan A & Srujana Yadav

Sebastian Schwecke
DEBT, TRUST, AND REPUTATION: EXTRA-LEGAL FINANCE IN NORTHERN INDIA
2022

The popular image of the village moneylender is often that of a rapacious scoundrel who impoverishes people by lending money at exorbitant rates, a monopolist who retards the development of free market forces, someone who needs to be eliminated in the name of progress. This line has been propagated both by the government (right from the colonial times through enactments such as the Usurious Loans Act) and the Reserve Bank of India.


Reviewed by: TCA Ranganathan

Nikhil Menon
PLANNING DEMOCRACY: HOW A PROFESSOR, AN INSTITUTE, AND AN IDEA SHAPED INDIA
2022

Around the time India became independent, almost everybody who was anybody within the country agreed, or at least pretended to, that India’s economic development required a strong dose of centralized economic planning. Big Business wanted planning to provide import protection and Keynesian demand management, even some redistribution to ward off Communism.


Reviewed by: Indraneel Dasgupta

William R. Kerr
THE GIFT OF GLOBAL TALENT: HOW MIGRATION SHAPES BUSINESS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
2019

This racy, jargon-free yet well researched book, interspersed with interesting anecdotes and illuminating facts, demonstrates quite convincingly how foreign talent that found a welcoming environment in the US has transformed American society in general and its science and engineering in particular. It is the author’s contention that recent happenings in the US, particularly the hostility against immigrants, consequent to growing inequality within the US and across the globe.


Reviewed by: Padmini Swaminathan

Preet S. Aulakh and Philip F. Kelly
MOBILITIES OF LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN ASIA
2020

Aulakh and Kelly provide readers with a brilliant conceptual framework to situate the themes of interdependent capital and labour mobilities. The choice of Asia is dictated by the latter’s phenomenal economic growth in the last couple of decades, it being both the source and destination of significant new migration corridors, as well as its distinctive institutional arrangements created to regulate these mobilities. Besides mapping the standard forms of capital mobility, the authors emphasize the significant role that remittances play in economic development at both local and national levels in the countries of origin of Asian migrants.


Reviewed by: Padmini Swaminathan
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