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Sanitation Workers in India

  • September 8, 2017
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Employment
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How many deaths will it take till they know that too many people have died? In just 35 days between mid-July and mid-August this year, in the capital city of Delhi alone, ten sanitation workers died while they were engaged…

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America’s Turn Towards Fascism and Its Contradictions

  • September 4, 2017
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

The fact that fascist elements in the U.S. have started raising their sinister head and that Donald Trump has started showing his open sympathy for such elements is borne out by several recent incidents. On Saturday August 12, at a…

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150 years of ‘Das Kapital’: How relevant is Marx today?

  • August 24, 2017
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
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It is quite amazing that Karl Marx's Capital has survived and been continuously in print for the past century and a half. After all, this big, unwieldy book (more than 2000 pages of small print in three fat volumes) still…

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Financing Education

  • August 8, 2017
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Fiscal Policy
  • 0 Comments

The Draft National Education Policy unveiled by the central government puts forward a bizarre line of reasoning. Education, it is argued on the basis of a long-held and honourable belief going back to the Kothari Commission, should have an annual…

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Progressive Mobilization in Europe

  • July 19, 2017
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Meetings of global leaders – such as recently occurred in the G20 meeting at Hamburg – increasingly have a ring of farce about them. The inability to come to agreement on pretty much anything of significance is leavened only by…

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Three Deaths

  • July 19, 2017
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, World Economy
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When one reaches a certain age, one has to steel oneself to the idea of hearing periodically the news of one’s friends passing away. But when the passing of several friends gets concentrated within a very short span of time,…

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The Rights of the Child and the G20 Summit

  • July 3, 2017
  • Sir Richard Jolly
  • Economy and Society, Poverty, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Nineteen rich counties and the EU are preparing for the G20 Summit. What brought this group together initially was their GDP size and their concern with the 2007/2008 massive financial crisis. After a brief flirtation with Keynesian ideas about governments’…

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Computer Outages

  • June 22, 2017
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Services
  • 0 Comments

It is a truth that should now be universally acknowledged that, everywhere in the world, our lives are driven by computers – or more specifically, by the workings of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and therefore the internet. And our…

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Growing class Resistance Against “Globalization”

  • June 19, 2017
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
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The term “globalization”, though much used, is extremely misleading, as is its presumed “other”, “nationalism”. This is because both terms are used as blanket terms without any reference to their class content, as if there can be only one kind…

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Why Workers Lose

  • May 30, 2017
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Economy and Society, Employment, Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

A long-acknowledged feature of global development since the 1970s is that in many countries—advanced and poor—those at the bottom of the income pyramid have benefited little, if at all, from whatever growth has occurred. One empirical outcome of that tendency…

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