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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025 6:00AM by Ken MacVey by Ken MacVey Do corporations have free will? Do they have legal and moral responsibility for their actions? Many argue that legal and moral responsibility must rest on free will. If there is no free will there cannot be such a thing as legal or moral responsibility. But…
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Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 6:00AM by Ashutosh Jogalekar by Ashutosh Jogalekar When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the people of a nation to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with their Executive, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the…
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by The Editors Notes from the Editors (Apr 01, 2025) Topics: Capitalism Economic Theory Ideology Marxism Political Economy Places: Americas United States buy this issue The Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish Central Bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel—the so-called Nobel Prize in Economics—was first awarded in 1969, a full sixty-eight years after the Nobel Foundation, in accordance with the will of Alfred…
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in India by Humra Quraishi 03/08/2019 Share: Share onWhatsAppShare onFacebookShare onX (Twitter)Share onTelegramShare onRedditShare onEmail There was something or everything so very extraordinarily different to Khushwant Singh that even after five years of his passing away he holds sway. At the recently concluded Khushwant Singh Literary Festival at King’s College, London, it got more than apparent that…
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An exploration into why India did not have its own Industrial Revolution despite its rich scientific history. Prof. Jayant V. Narlikar Oct 28, 2024 A frequently asked question Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam had asked a question that historians of science have discussed from time to time. The background to the question is outlined first. The…
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