Development Perspectives Malcolm Adiseshiah Memorial Lectures

About the Book

The book, a compilation of Malcolm Adiseshiah memorial lectures, gives a wide array of perspectives on India’s developmental process in the last few decades. 

The contributors are distinguished scholars with expertise in the fields of economics, education, environment, history, political science, policy studies and sociology. The development perspectives presented in this volume differ not only in terms of the discipline in which the authors have had formal academic training, but also in terms of the inter-disciplinary approaches they have adopted to explore India’s development experience. The book mainly addresses issues relating to distributional aspects of growth and needed correction in the process of economic change that would take distributional justice in its stride. The free flowing style of presentation, without compromising on the rigour of analysis, will be attractive both for students and experts in social sciences.

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

R. Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in Econometrics, University of Madras. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research in economics.

He was a member of the State Planning Commission (2006-2011) and many other policy making and academic bodies. His researches have been in the areas of public finance and regional economics. His special interest in teaching of economics led him to organise periodic workshops for teachers of economics in schools and colleges to explore new teaching techniques and to reform economics curriculum. He has been extensively contributing on economic issues  for both print and electronic media.

Contributors

Bina Agarwal

Amita Baviskar

Rajeev Bhargava

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Satish Deshpande

Ramachandra Guha

Dipankar Gupta

Gopal Narayan Guru

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Sharmila Rege

Jandhyala B.G. Tilak

Yogendra Yadav