Rahul Varman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahul Varman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahul |
| FAMILY NAME | Varman |
| SIGNATURE | VARMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8221-6419 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Telecom Industry in India
The success of the telecommunications industry in India has been heralded as a "miracle." But a miracle for whom? The answer, Rahul Varman writes, has clearly been the capitalist class, who, over three decades, have amassed tremendous wealth and power through the machinations of large firms, in collusion with the Indian government
What Do We Learn about Capitalism from Chip War
Chip War (Simon and Schuster, 2022) by Chris Miller is a detailed accounting of the U.S. efforts to retain control of the computer chip industry—an industry that has become vital to nearly all aspects of modern life. Rahul Varman explores and expands on these themes, asking all the while: What can the escalating wars over this crucial technology teach us about global capitalism
The Neoclassical Apology for Monopoly Capital
While the global economy is mired in ever-deepening crisis, there is no abatement in the propaganda rationalizing free markets and perfect competition. In the world of "perfect competition" governed by the "invisible hand" of market forces, no single actor (or even a combination of a few) is in a position to influence the market equilibrium, and prices are determined by the balance of demand and supply. This is a win-win world, where actors have …
Notes from small industry clusters
Is Ngo Development Assistance Mistargeted? An Epistemological Approach
An empirical analysis of the relationship between “objectively assessed need” and the formation of NGOs in Andhra Pradesh, India, suggests that the former is not a significant trigger for the latter. The formation of NGOs appears to be a response to perceptions of need that are so far removed from the local level that they fail to prioritize amongst levels and locations of poverty. In the absence of objective feedback mechanisms, the global—and t…
Power and Politics in Grievance Resolution
This paper studies the relatively less explored issue of the actual process of grievance resolution from a political perspective. In a steel plant in India, six grievance cases were analyzed from the filing of a grievance to its final resolution. Cases were reconstructed through semistructured interviews and analyzed from a political perspective. The sources of power of the key actors and their influence tactics vis-A-vis one another were found t…
Is Ngo Development Assistance Mistargeted? An Epistemological Approach
An empirical analysis of the relationship between “objectively assessed need” and the formation of NGOs in Andhra Pradesh, India, suggests that the former is not a significant trigger for the latter. The formation of NGOs appears to be a response to perceptions of need that are so far removed from the local level that they fail to prioritize amongst levels and locations of poverty. In the absence of objective feedback mechanisms, the global—and t…
Power and Politics in Grievance Resolution
This paper studies the relatively less explored issue of the actual process of grievance resolution from a political perspective. In a steel plant in India, six grievance cases were analyzed from the filing of a grievance to its final resolution. Cases were reconstructed through semistructured interviews and analyzed from a political perspective. The sources of power of the key actors and their influence tactics vis-A-vis one another were found t…
Power and Politics in Grievance Resolution
This paper studies the relatively less explored issue of the actual process of grievance resolution from a political perspective. In a steel plant in India, six grievance cases were analyzed from the filing of a grievance to its final resolution. Cases were reconstructed through semistructured interviews and analyzed from a political perspective. The sources of power of the key actors and their influence tactics vis-A-vis one another were found t…
Is Ngo Development Assistance Mistargeted? An Epistemological Approach
An empirical analysis of the relationship between “objectively assessed need” and the formation of NGOs in Andhra Pradesh, India, suggests that the former is not a significant trigger for the latter. The formation of NGOs appears to be a response to perceptions of need that are so far removed from the local level that they fail to prioritize amongst levels and locations of poverty. In the absence of objective feedback mechanisms, the global—and t…
Notes from small industry clusters
The Neoclassical Apology for Monopoly Capital
While the global economy is mired in ever-deepening crisis, there is no abatement in the propaganda rationalizing free markets and perfect competition. In the world of "perfect competition" governed by the "invisible hand" of market forces, no single actor (or even a combination of a few) is in a position to influence the market equilibrium, and prices are determined by the balance of demand and supply. This is a win-win world, where actors have …
The Telecom Industry in India
The success of the telecommunications industry in India has been heralded as a "miracle." But a miracle for whom? The answer, Rahul Varman writes, has clearly been the capitalist class, who, over three decades, have amassed tremendous wealth and power through the machinations of large firms, in collusion with the Indian government
What Do We Learn about Capitalism from Chip War
Chip War (Simon and Schuster, 2022) by Chris Miller is a detailed accounting of the U.S. efforts to retain control of the computer chip industry—an industry that has become vital to nearly all aspects of modern life. Rahul Varman explores and expands on these themes, asking all the while: What can the escalating wars over this crucial technology teach us about global capitalism
Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Capital (architecture) (2 works) · Competition (biology) (2 works) · Industrial organization (2 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (2 works) · Law (2 works)