Relocating Development Economics - The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists

"This book shows how the first generation of modern Indian economists pushed the boundaries of existing theories and produced reformulations that better fit their subcontinent. It opens up discursive space to find new ways of thinking about regress, progress and development"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Context; 2. The Beginnings of Indian Economics; 3. Stages of Civilisation; 4. Regress; 5. Developing Balanced Growth at Home; 6. A Global Win-Win Model for Development; Epilogue: Multiple Definitions of Progress and Development.

About the author

Maria Bach is a Junior Lecturer and Post-doctoral Researcher at The University of Lausanne. As a historian of economics, she is interested in how economists from what we call the Global South today produced economic ideas. She wrote her thesis at King's College London in International Political Economy, which won the Joseph Dorfman Award for the Best Dissertation in the History of Economic Thought, 2020.

Summary

This book shows how the first generation of modern Indian economists pushed the boundaries of existing theories and produced reformulations that better fit their subcontinent. It opens up discursive space to find new ways of thinking about regress, progress and development.

Foreword

Shows how the first generation of modern Indian economists pushed at the boundaries of existing theories.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Bach, Maria (Universite De Lausanne Bach
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781009438193
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943819-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, India, Economic history, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies