Articles by S S Sivakumar

Differentiation and 'Iron Chest' Accounting System Some Aspects of Peasantist Economics S S Sivakumar This article is an attempt to comment on three important lines of economic reasoning pertaining to, what Georgescu-Roegen termed, 'peasantist economies'. Although our evidence relates to only two villages in Tamil Nadu, we feel that further empirical examination too will, by and large, support our conclusion that peasantism in economics does not stand the test of verification.

Nalini Pandit Classes in Marxist theory are not mere economic categories. They are living social groups whose attitudes and responses are determined by historical and cultural factors. The materialistic interpretation of history does not imply an exclusive emphasis on the economic factor to the comparative neglect of others. The purpose of formulating a social theory is to understand the attitudes and responses of different social groups to particular programmes.

the paper by nuking it clear that there may not he anything new in our economic findings. Many authors who worked on the Indian economy might have already arrived at the same conclusions as those of ours. But we differ significantly and may be right, too, about the methodology to arrive at such conclusions.