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Author: Prabhat Patnaik

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The Scandal of Old-age Pensions

  • September 6, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics
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Junior Minister for Rural Development in the central government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ruled out in parliament any increase in the amount of monthly pension given by the centre to the elderly under the National Social Assistance Programme (The Telegraph, August…

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Neo-liberalism and Nationhood

  • August 30, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
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The anti-colonial nationalism that informed the struggle for liberation in third world countries was, as is well-known, of an entirely different genre from the bourgeois nationalism that had emerged in Europe in the seventeenth century. There is a tendency in…

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Mexico’s Turn away from Neo-liberalism

  • August 23, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • World Economy
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President Lopez Obrador of Mexico in his inaugural speech itself had called neo-liberalism a “disaster” and a “calamity”. The Leftist political party, MORENA, to which he belongs, had stated in its programme: “The global economic crisis has revealed the failure…

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Capital and Imperialism – Theory, History and the Present

  • August 23, 2021
  • Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
  • Finance
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 6.25 x 9.5 inches  (x+382) 392 pages Hardback ISBN:  978-81-947175-9-1 Rs 1200 For sale in India and South Asia only Mainstream economics invariably sees capitalism as an isolated and closed system. In this path-breaking book, authors Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat…

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The Household and the State

  • August 16, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics
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Simple analogies can be deceptive, even dangerous. An example is the analogy often drawn between the household and the state. Just as a household cannot “live beyond its means” for ever, and sooner or later its creditors not only stop…

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Equality and Scarcity

  • August 9, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
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Many would remember that the Soviet Union and other Eastern European socialist countries used to be characterized by long queues of consumers for several commodities. This was a source of much derision in the West and was attributed to the…

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A Blot on the Nation

  • August 6, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society
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The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is a blot on the nation. In no nation reputed to be civilized is there a law that allows the State to pick up literally anybody and keep the person in jail for years, without…

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Three Decades of Economic Liberalization

  • August 2, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics
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It is thirty years since India adopted neo-liberal policies in 1991, though some would date their introduction even earlier to 1985. Newspapers are full of assessments of the impact of these policies on the economy, and liberalizers from Manmohan Singh…

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The Nationalisation of Banks in 1969

  • July 26, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Finance
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On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is some talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all? The answer to…

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Neo-liberalism and the Extreme Right

  • July 19, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
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There has of late been an upsurge of extreme right-wing, fascist, semi-fascist or neo-fascist parties all over the world in a manner reminiscent of the 1930s. Fascist governments invariably serve the interests of monopoly capital in general, and of the…

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