Sense and Solidarity

Jholawala Economics for Everyone

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20031605
AutoresJean Drèze (0000-0001-7245-8625, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Data de publicação2019-02-21
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSense and Solidarity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198833468.001.0001
OpenAlexW4237698529
Open LibraryOL34669571M
ISBN9780198833468
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas6

The last twenty years have been a time of intense public debates on social policy in India. There have also been major initiatives, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, as well as resilient inertia in some fields. This book brings together some of Jean Drèze's contributions to these debates, along with other short essays on social development. The essays span the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. The book aims at enlarging the boundaries of social development, towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create. The concluding essay, on public-spiritedness and solidarity, argues that the cultivation of enlightened social norms is an integral part of development. "Jholawala" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected

Collective action · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Economic Theory and Institutions · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · 1947 · Economic conditions · Economic development · Economic history · India · Social conditions