Utsa Patnaik

Biographic Data

ID138681
NAMEUtsa Patnaik
GIVEN NAMESUtsa
FAMILY NAMEPatnaik
SIGNATUREPATNAIK U
AFFILIATIONSJawaharlal Nehru University
ORCID0000-0001-7059-6442
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS206
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism Today

    Open AccessPrabhat Patnaik, Utsa PatnaikARTICLEMonthly Review2025

    Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik consider the historical views of the relationship between the proletariat and peasantry during the revolutionary transition to socialism and struggle against imperialism. While other thinkers have suggested that alliances between the two groups must be shed in order to complete the revolution, the Patnaiks propose a framework of voluntary cooperatization benefiting all

  • The Many Republics of Hunger

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2024References: 4

    This article is the Sixth Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Utsa Patnaik during the SMAIAS/ASN Summer School on January 16, 2023, in Harare. Professor Patnaik argues that the discourse in development economics is so completely dominated by fallacious ideas emanating from the conservative economics departments of universities in advanced industrial countries, and economists in the Global South tend to be so completely hegemonized by…

  • Economia Política e suas falácias: Por que é importante criticar e repensar

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEPrincípios Revista de Filosofia…2023

    Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre questões chave e falácias que estão na origem da economia política. Argumenta-se, quanto ao problema da produção de conhecimento, que a formulação de teorias factual e logicamente incorretas tem início com a economia política clássica inglesa. A economia política desenvolvida na Inglaterra na segunda metade do século XVIII — um período em que o país assistiu a um rápido aumento do seu comércio, especialmen…

  • On Political Economy and its Fallacies: Why Critiques and Rethinking Matter

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2022Cited by: 1References: 4

    This article is the 10th anniversary lecture of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, delivered in 2021. It provides a reflection on key issues and fallacies that lie at the origins of political economy. It is argued that, as regards the problem of knowledge production, the formulation of factually and logically incorrect theories begins with English classical political economy. Political economy as developed in England in the second half…

  • The Drain of Wealth: Colonialism before the First World War

    Open AccessUtsa Patnaik, Prabhat PatnaikARTICLEMonthly Review2021Cited by: 1

    The Western European powers appropriated economic surplus from their colonies, materially and substantially aiding their own industrial transition from the eighteenth century onward, as well as the diffusion of capitalism to the regions of new European settlement. In the case of India, the concept of drain is based on the fact that a substantial part of its earnings was never permitted to accrue to the country; it was instead appropriated by the …

  • The Social Existence Forms of Labor: Capitalism, Colonies, and Community Labor

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial research2021

    This paper discusses the social existence forms of labor that arose historically from the producers’ relation to the land and the specific forms in which surplus labor was appropriated. Peasant producers in Asia were not serfs subject to corvée; as taxpaying possessors of land, they had a relatively autonomous productive base, often enabling them to resist excessive demands by the state and to maintain the social reproduction of labor. Unpaid lab…

  • The social reproduction of labour in the context of the work of women: Past and present

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEStudies in People’s History2020

    After the primary role that Gordon Childe assigned to women in prehistory in both the beginnings of agriculture and cattle-domestication, women have been placed at an inferior position in both the realms of production and consumption. Even when they were employed in factories after the Industrial Revolution, they were paid much lower wages than men workers. As Marx pointed out, however, wages have to cover the entire family expenses, and, on this…

  • Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End

    Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat PatnaikARTICLEMonthly Review2019

    Today, we not only have decades of neoliberalism behind us, but the neoliberal regime itself has reached a dead end. Contemporary imperialism has to be discussed within this setting. There are two main reasons why the regime of neoliberal globalization has run into a dead end. The first is an ex antetendency toward global overproduction; the second is that the only possible counter to this tendency within the regime is the formation of asset-pric…

  • A Theory of Imperialism

    Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat PatnaikBOOKA Theory of Imperialism2016

  • Imperialism in the Era of Globalization

    Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat PatnaikARTICLEMonthly Review2015Cited by: 2

    Capitalism is preeminently a money-using system where a large part of wealth is held either in the form of money or as money-denominated assets, namely financial assets. For the system to work, it is essential that the value of money should not keep declining against commodities; otherwise people would move away from holding money, and it would cease to be not just a form of wealth, but even a medium of circulation.... Hence, capitalism seeks to …

  • The Origins and Continuation of First World Import Dependence on Developing Countries for Agricultural Products

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2015Cited by: 5

    This article puts forward two main propositions which have been discussed at length in earlier papers and supports these with historical and current data, which have not been presented before. The first proposition is that the origins of Third World food dependence lie in the First World's dependence on developing countries for both food and non-food imports. The second is that the advanced countries' dependence has not declined, on the contrary …

  • Some Aspects of the Contemporary Agrarian Question

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2012Cited by: 6References: 7

    This article argues that the first industrializing nations like Britain historically met a large part of their food needs through tax or rent-financed imports and re-exports, from today's developing countries. It points out a fallacy in Ricardo's theory of mutual benefit for both trading partners from specialization and exchange, arising from its assumption that both countries produce both goods. Developing countries did not benefit but experienc…

  • Origins of the Food Crisis in India and Developing Countries

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLEMonthly Review2009Cited by: 3

    India has had a growing problem with food output and availability for the mass of the population since the inception of neoliberal economic reforms in 1991. A deep agricultural depression and rising unemployment rates resulting from "reform" policies have made the problem especially acute over the past decade. There has been a sharp decline in per capita grain output as well as grain consumption in the economy as a whole. Income has been shifting…

  • Imperialism, Resources and Food Security, with reference to the Indian Experience

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEHuman Geography2008Cited by: 3References: 1

    This paper analyzes the reasons for declining incomes and nutritional standards of agriculture-dependent populations of developing countries under recent neoliberal economic reforms by taking up the case of India. Located mainly in tropical areas, developing countries can produce a qualitatively different primary output vector with a much larger range of products compared to cold temperate regions comprising today's advanced countries. This fact …

  • The agrarian market constraint in India after fourteen years of economic reforms and trade liberalisation

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESouth Asia Journal of South Asian…2005Cited by: 1

  • The Republic of Hunger

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist2004Cited by: 20References: 3

  • Principal Task on the Agrarian Front

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist2004Cited by: 1

  • Food Stocks and Hunger: The Causes of Agrarian Distress

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist2003Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Global Capitalism, Deflation and Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2003Cited by: 11References: 13

    Periods of economic crisis for agriculture in developing countries have been marked in history by declining incomes and worsening employment possibilities, resulting in adverse outcomes of loss of land rights against debt and declining nutrition levels for the poorer majority of populations. This paper argues that a similar conjuncture of agrarian crisis has become visible in recent years, as had been seen in the prelude to the inter-War Depressi…

  • Agrarian Crisis and Global Deflationism

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist2002Cited by: 3

  • The long transition: Essays on political economy

    Utsa PatnaikBOOKThe long transition1999

  • The Promethean Vision: The Communist Manifesto and the Development of Capitalism after 150 Years

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist1999

  • The Cost of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the Indian Economy

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist1999Cited by: 2

  • EMS on the Agrarian Question: Ground Rent and Its Implications

    Utsa PatnaikARTICLESocial Scientist1999Cited by: 3

  • Capitalism and Unfreedom

    Open AccessUtsa PatnaikARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1997

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