One of the immanent tendencies of capital is to commoditize every sphere of life; and under neo-liberal capitalism where the immanent tendencies of capital are given full play, we find the sway of commoditization reaching into new areas. The commoditization…
The Indian government’s effort to resolve by force its banking crisis with the help of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has hit yet another roadblock. Even when major secured creditors agree to a resolution plan, because they have to…
First it was the Finance Secretary who said that if the government borrowed less then more savings would be available for the private sector to borrow. Then it was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India who talked…
While the neoliberal focus has been on attempts to “shrink the state” on the grounds of corruption and inefficiency, sensible people have long recognised that high levels of public employment tend to be associated with better quality of life for…
The jobs crisis prominently visible among rural females earlier has now spread to the rural male segment Question of livelihoods and the lived reality of people, sooner or later, catch up with any democratically elected government. One of the major…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Society for Social and Economic Research in collaboration with Knowledge Commons is organising The First Nagwain School on Marxism Dates: September 20 to October 4, 2019 Venue: Society for Technology and Development (STD), Nagwain, District Kullu, Himachal…
What are some of the challenges faced by women in agriculture in India? What are the possible ways out of the agrarian crisis, that is hurting women farmers and agricultural workers the hardest? This video provides a glimpse of the…
Fifty years ago on July 19, 1969, fourteen large private banks had been nationalized. Ironically the Golden Jubilee of that event, which had been a significant step in the process of building up a new financial architecture for the country,…
The self-reinforcing pattern of high profits, low investment, and rising inequality poses a threat not only to economic growth, but also to democracy, argues Jayati Ghosh. Click here for full article. * This article was originally published in the Project Syndicate on July 16,…
With India’s development strategy relying increasingly on private investors across industrial and infrastructural categories, the question of how private investment would be financed has moved to centre stage. This question has gained in significance not merely because areas earlier reserved…
