Economics as Ideology and Experience

Contributors -- Preface -- Ashok Mitra: A Biographical Sketch/Deepak Nayyar -- Ideology -- The National Context -- Unemployment as Failure to Exchange/Prabhat Patnaik -- The Political Economy of Consumer Subsidies in the USSR/Nirmal K. Chandra -- The Planning Principle: An Unresolved Debate/C.P. Chandrasekhar -- Markets: Evolution, Limits and Relationship to Governance/Arun Ghosh -- The International Context -- Some Lessons from the Two Economic Systems/Amit Bhaduri -- International Trade and Factor Mobility: Economic Theory and Political Reality/Deepak Nayyar -- Local and Global Monopolies and the Prospects of Global Democracy/Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- Experience -- The Indian Context -- Terms of Trade and Demand Patterns/N. Krishnaji, T.N. Krishnan -- Targeting Internal Public Borrowing/Iqbal S. Gulati -- The State and the Poor/Pramit Chaudhuri -- The Political Economy of India: From the Law of Value to Structuralist Macroeconomics/Ranjit Sau -- Planning in India: Retrospect and Prospects/A. Vaidyanathan -- The Comparative Dimension -- The Need for the Comparative Method in the Social Sciences: An Essay with the Agrarian Question in India in Mind/Terence J. Byres -- Alternative Strategies of Agrarian Change in Relation to Resources for Development in India and China/Utsa Patnaik -- Capital Flows and Macro-Economies: A Historical View/Jayati Ghosh, Abhijit Sen -- Privatising the Third World: The Role of Ideology in the Bretton Woods Reform Agenda/Rehman Sobhan.