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| The
Long Transition |
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| Author:
Utsa Patnaik |
Published
by: Tulika Books |
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The papers in
the present volume, though covering a wide range
of fields, from economic theory to economic history,
the problems of socialist economies, and the dynamics
of Indian agriculture, have, nonetheless, a basic
unity. This arises not only from the Marxist perspective
underlying them, but also from an attempt to engage
with 'the present as history'.
This 'present' above all is marked by the phenomenon
of imperialism whose conceptual presence permeates
many of the essays. Its role in the development
of capitalism in the advanced countries, its need
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attempt to recolonize
the third world, the contradictions arising from
the unresolved agrarian question in third-world
societies, and the minimum conditions for their
completing the long transition to emancipation:
such are the issues which concern the author.
The concepts of class and the mode of production
are developed and used for exploring these issues.
Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has written
extensively on political economy, capitalism,
and the agrarian question. She is the author of
Peasant Class Differentiation (New Delhi,1987)
and The Agranian Question and the Development
of Capitalism in India (New Delhi,1986). She has
also edited Agrarian Relations and Accumulation
(Bombay,1990) and (with Manjari Dingwani) Chains
of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India (Delhi,1985). |
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| September19, 2002. |
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