Articles by V M Dandekar

Government by Gambling V M Dandekar IN the auspicious year of the Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, the Governments of most States have inaugurated two important social reforms: One is relaxing or altogether lifting prohibition; the other is initiating State lotteries. Whatever the justification given, the reasons for the two reforms are obvious. The expenditure on development programmes and the expenditure incurred in the name of or incidental to such programmes has been mounting day by day. Two years ago, the then Finance Minister suggested that public expenditure must be restrained and unproductive expenditure must be eliminated. Much thought was given to the subject. Several economy measures were explored in order to cut down public expenditure. But they turned out to be politically impossible. Hence- it became obvious that additional finances must he raised to meet mounting expenditure.

its Thesis on the Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies and Semi-colonies' at the 1928 Sixth World Congress. Not for them, again, the turn to a new course in the 1935 Seventh World Congress where the famous Dimitrov Report presaged the new line which the World Communist movement adopted in 1959. Obviously these discussions and their themes are beyond the intellectual horizon and ability of the authors.

The central thesis underlying D R Gadgil's assessment of the present economic situation and his prescriptions for the future is that the shape and direction of economic policy are largely the result of influence of vested interests in private business and trade. He recommends a comprehensive regulatory framework in order to curtail and regulate the work and influence of this section.

This paper critically examines the economic logic underlying Professor Schultz's concept of Traditional Agriculture and his policy recommendations for transforming the same into a modern efficient agriculture (Theodore W Schultz, "Transforming Traditional Agriculture", Yale University Press, 1964.) and points out a certain element of the situation which it seems have escaped his attention. 

The paper is thus divided into two parts. In the first, I shall raise certain questions of economic analysis. In the second, I shall indicate certain relevant Issues which I think Professor Schultz has missed.