M A Oommen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Oommen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Oommen |
| SIGNATURE | OOMMEN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre For Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3296-3983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sixteenth Finance Commission and the Third Tier
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Indian Development and Its Discontents
This monograph approaches Indian development as a pursuit to realise the idea of India as crystallised in the Indian Constitution, which left it to the Indian democratic system tasked with developing citizenship to its fullness. This great experiment in a constitutional democracy is in significant contrast to the emphasis on economic growth projected as a panacea to solve India’s problems of poverty and deprivation by economists in general. Joble…
Reflections on the Epistemological Malady of the Discipline of Economics
People pursue scientific study to learn about the riddle of the world we live. Assuming that the ontological vocation of the academic profession is to transform the world for better living, economics as a scientific discipline will have to develop theories and tools to understand social reality and work towards its creative transformation. This article tries to argue that mainstream economics that reduces social life into exchange value calculus …
Growth, Inequality and Well-being
This article revisits 50 years of the development trajectory of India’s Kerala state, well known for its human development attainments. To put the discussion in perspective we use a conceptual framework integrating growth, inequality and well-being. Long accustomed to a low per capita income and caste–class iniquities of the worst order, Kerala acquired great human development and social justice largely through a process of public action involvin…
The Meaning of Development
In any science the meaning given to concepts and the way they are used profoundly influence the formulation of problems and the manner of seeking solutions. This article based on the experiences of an economics teacher of long-standing innings, traces the distortions introduced into the discipline of economics, legitimised by a long tradition of economists who tried to make it a science like physics with universally valid postulates and principle…
Rise and Growth of Banking in Kerala
Rise and Growth of Banking in Kerala
Growth, Inequality and Well-being
This article revisits 50 years of the development trajectory of India’s Kerala state, well known for its human development attainments. To put the discussion in perspective we use a conceptual framework integrating growth, inequality and well-being. Long accustomed to a low per capita income and caste–class iniquities of the worst order, Kerala acquired great human development and social justice largely through a process of public action involvin…
Rise and Growth of Banking in Kerala
The Meaning of Development
In any science the meaning given to concepts and the way they are used profoundly influence the formulation of problems and the manner of seeking solutions. This article based on the experiences of an economics teacher of long-standing innings, traces the distortions introduced into the discipline of economics, legitimised by a long tradition of economists who tried to make it a science like physics with universally valid postulates and principle…
Growth, Inequality and Well-being
This article revisits 50 years of the development trajectory of India’s Kerala state, well known for its human development attainments. To put the discussion in perspective we use a conceptual framework integrating growth, inequality and well-being. Long accustomed to a low per capita income and caste–class iniquities of the worst order, Kerala acquired great human development and social justice largely through a process of public action involvin…
Reflections on the Epistemological Malady of the Discipline of Economics
People pursue scientific study to learn about the riddle of the world we live. Assuming that the ontological vocation of the academic profession is to transform the world for better living, economics as a scientific discipline will have to develop theories and tools to understand social reality and work towards its creative transformation. This article tries to argue that mainstream economics that reduces social life into exchange value calculus …
Indian Development and Its Discontents
This monograph approaches Indian development as a pursuit to realise the idea of India as crystallised in the Indian Constitution, which left it to the Indian democratic system tasked with developing citizenship to its fullness. This great experiment in a constitutional democracy is in significant contrast to the emphasis on economic growth projected as a panacea to solve India’s problems of poverty and deprivation by economists in general. Joble…
The Sixteenth Finance Commission and the Third Tier
,
Economics (4 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Development economics (2 works)