Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:00:24 +0530
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Hunger and Other Essays'
Subject: New title from Three Essays: 'The Republic of Hunger and
Other Essays'
New title from Three Essays Collective
(available from April 20)
THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGER and Other Essays
By Utsa Patnaik
Utsa Patnaik's book is as much a comment on the state of economics
as a discipline today, as on the economic policies that are ruining
the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the Third World.
The unifying theme of her essays is the impact on the Third World of
the new imperialism in the present era, which takes the form of
deflationary neo-liberal 'economic reforms', a thrust towards free
trade and subservient agriculture. She shows how these policies are
causing unprecedented rural distress and universal hunger in the
developing countries including India. Hers is a voice of sanity,
conscience and true scholarship.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Ideology of Overpopulation
3. The Costs of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the Indian Economy
4. The Economic and Demographic Collapse in Russia
5. The Loss of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
6. Asia Must Starve to Feed the West: The Rice Debacle in the Philippines
7. Peasant Resistance to Globalisation: Chiapas a Symbol
8. Mass Income Deflation, Burgeoning Foodstocks
9. Foodstocks and Hunger: Causes of Agrarian Distress
10. The Republic of Hunger
11. Theorising Food Security and Poverty in the Era of Economic Reforms
12. It is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up
13. Agrarian Crisis under Neo-Imperialism and the Importance of
Peasant Resistance
About the Author:
Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic
Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is
the author of 'The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy'
(1999); 'Peasant Class Differentiation: A Study in Method with
Reference to Haryana' (1987); 'The Agrarian Question and the
Development of Capitalism in India' (1985). She has also edited
several collections including 'Chains of Servitude: Bondage and
Slavery in India' (with Manjari Dingwaney) and 'The Agrarian
Question in Marx and His Successors'.
Demy 8vo, viii + 232 pages
ISBN 81-88789-33-X Rs250 Paperback
ISBN 81-88789-48-8 Rs500 Hardcover
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