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Oxford University Press, USA
Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone
Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone
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Jean Dreze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. In Sense and Solidarity Dreze offers unique insight on
issues of hunger, inequality, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates
that often accompanied them. 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.Sense and Solidarity spans 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. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.
Author: Jean Dreze
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/21/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198833468
issues of hunger, inequality, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates
that often accompanied them. 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.Sense and Solidarity spans 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. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.
Author: Jean Dreze
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/21/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198833468
About the Author
Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India
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