Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Title | Rethinking Markets in Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Ajay Gandhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2020-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108486789 |
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Title | Rethinking Markets in Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Ajay Gandhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108801129 |
To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian markets through the competition and collaboration of those who frame and participate in markets. Anchored in vivid case studies – from colonial property and advertising milieus to today's bazaar and criminal economies – this volume underlines the friction and interdependence between commerce, society, and state. Contributors from history, anthropology, political economy, and development studies synthesize existing scholarly approaches, add new perspectives on Indian capitalism's evolution, and reveal the transactional specificities that underlie the real-world functioning of markets.
Markets, Morals and Development
Title | Markets, Morals and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Wahiduddin Mahmud |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000485080 |
This book presents, or rather “re-presents”, the intricacies of a developing economy in the light of recent theoretical developments in economics while also providing a fresh perspective on the perceived inadequacies of the discipline in addressing the discontents of the contemporary global economic order. The book argues that there is scope for economics to be a more humane discipline and more relevant to contemporary economic problems by embracing new ideas, including those from other disciplines. It attempts to show how economic concepts and theories can be contextualised to help better understand real-life economic phenomena; how to rethink the ways in which the market economy can address the moral issues of human wellbeing and social justice; and, overall, how the study of economics and public discourses on economic issues can be made more engaging as well as more relevant to the problems of developing countries. Based on public lectures given by the author in Dhaka, and using illustrations from Bangladesh, India and other countries, the book offers an authoritative understanding of diverse economic realities by taking a fresh look at the familiar. Comprehensive and accessible, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of economics, development economics and policy, sociology and business studies as well as to journalists, public intellectuals and policymakers in developing countries.
The Economy of Modern India
Title | The Economy of Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | B. R. Tomlinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2013-04-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107021189 |
A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.
Rethinking the Future
Title | Rethinking the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Rowan Gibson |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1857884620 |
The world’s foremost business thinkers explore organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow’s hypercompetitive global environment.
A Business History of India
Title | A Business History of India PDF eBook |
Author | Tirthankar Roy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316953262 |
In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive. How, then, did capitalism flourish in the region? How did companies and entrepreneurs deal with the shortage of key resources? Has there been a common pattern in responses to these issues over the centuries? Through detailed case studies of firms, entrepreneurs, and business commodities, Tirthankar Roy answers these questions. Roy bridges the approaches of business and economic history, illustrating the development of a distinctive regional capitalism. On each occasion of growth, connections with the global economy helped firms and entrepreneurs better manage risks. Making these deep connections between India's economic past and present shows why history matters in its remaking of capitalism today.
Rethinking Sovereign Debt
Title | Rethinking Sovereign Debt PDF eBook |
Author | Odette Lienau |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2014-02-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674726405 |
Conventional wisdom holds that all nations must repay debt. Regardless of the legitimacy of the regime that signs the contract, a country that fails to honor its obligations damages its reputation. Yet should today's South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Is it reasonable to tether postwar Iraq with Saddam Hussein's excesses? Rethinking Sovereign Debt is a probing analysis of how sovereign debt continuity--the rule that nations should repay loans even after a major regime change, or else expect consequences--became dominant. Odette Lienau contends that the practice is not essential for functioning capital markets, and demonstrates its reliance on absolutist ideas that have come under fire over the last century. Lienau traces debt continuity from World War I to the present, emphasizing the role of government officials, the World Bank, and private markets in shaping our existing framework. Challenging previous accounts, she argues that Soviet Russia's repudiation of Tsarist debt and Great Britain's 1923 arbitration with Costa Rica hint at the feasibility of selective debt cancellation. Rethinking Sovereign Debt calls on scholars and policymakers to recognize political choice and historical precedent in sovereign debt and reputation, in order to move beyond an impasse when a government is overthrown.