Articles by Nirmal Kumar Chandra

Dimensions of Social and Economic Crisis in Russia Today Nirmal Kumar Chandra Not only in Russia, but in most parts of east Europe, the output fall after the economic reform has turned out to be more dramatic and persistent than had initially been projected by policy-makers and reoliberal academics. Social conditions as reflected in real wages, unemployment, poverty, inequality and criminality have worsened no less.

Nirmal Kumar Chandra This paper attempts to show how, rejecting neoliberal diagnoses on many occasions, China has created a transitional economic system that combines in a most original way seemingly contradictory elements of central and local planning, the domestic market and a relatively small window looking out into the world outside. If the mix was very much of their own concoction, the Chinese have learnt copiously from their own past and from the USSR as well as their own neighbours such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, The author's objective is not so much to chronicle the story, but to look for policy recipes for others, both developed and developing countries, underscoring the counter-productive nature of the neoliberal dogma.

India's Rouble Debt and Depreciating Rouble Nirmal Kumar Chandra This paper assesses the India-Russia agreement on the size and modalities of repayment of India's rouble debt from two different angles. The first consists of examining the distribution of the gains of India's trade with the former Soviet Union. The focus is on the unit values of the commodities exchanged, particularly our arms imports financed through Soviet credits. The other aspect concerns the nature of the rouble as a currency up to 1989 and after, on which score there appears to be very widespread misconception.

Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today Gyanendra Pandey The dominant nationalist historiography that insists on the totalising standpoint of a seamless nationalism needs to be challenged not only because of its interested use of categories such as 'national' and 'secular' but also because of its privileging of the so-called 'general' over the particular, the larger over the smaller, the 'mainstream' over the 'marginal

Capitalism, Slavery and Neoclassical Economics Nirmal Kumar Chandra The 'Triangular Trade and the Atlantic Economy of the Eighteenth Century: A Simple General-Equilibrium Model by R Findlay; Essays in International Finance No 177, March 1990, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.