Lessons from Indian Experience Pronab Sen The objective of this study is two-fold: (a) to re-establish the macro-economic foundations of development strategy; and (b) to reiterate and re-emphasise a...
Review of Political Economy
Social Structure Palestine: A Case Study Nahla Abdo While the dialectical relationship of domination and subordination can be attributed to all social formations experiencing capitalist development...
Democracy of Poverty James Petras Morris Morley The divergent outcomes resulting from the crises in eastern Europe and Latin America are not the result of the demise of economic systems or the...
Agrarian Reform in Peru, 1969-78 R Maria Saleth The issue of land reform postponed for decades in Peru was addressed by a relatively progressive military leader- ship during 1969-78 thanks to...
Outline of an Approach Burton Stein Study of historical Indian class formation has long been frustrated by the hostility of academic social science to class-based analyses, in part because caste is...
in Central Himalaya E Somanathan This paper analyses the problem of deforestation and ecological degradation in a central Himalayan region and outlines a policy for combating it. It is shown that...
Case Study of Cardamom Hills of Kerala Marcus Moench The causes of deforestation in the Cardamom Hills in the Idukki district of Kerala can only be understood in the context of the relationship...
of Labour Nigel Harris IT would be a pity if a note in one of the speeches of the Indian minister of commerce to trade ministers at the Uruguay Round got lost in the collapse of the GATT talks. It...
Is It the Same as in Marx? Paresh Chattopadhyay In the following lines we propose to discuss critically how Lenin conceived of socialism as a new form of society and to what extent his concept of...
and Appraisal of Social Reality Ramkrishna Mukherjee Culture, economy, and polity are three essential dimensions taken into account for the appraisal of social reality. While the interaction of the...
Tortuous Road Jos Chathukulam After repeated aborted attempts at democratic decentralisation, district councils are about to be constituted in Kerala under the District Administration Act, 1979...
Plea for 'Labour-ist' Approach Krishna Bharadwaj Arguing that the commodity-centred approach to the study of economic development lost sight of the tremendous changes taking place in the economic...
and Political Crisis Sharat G Lin The centrally-planned states of the east, while professing socialism, harbour fundamental social contradictions between the working class and the bureaucratic...
Development Pradhan H Prasad Whatever marginal economic gains have been made after independence have been unevenly distributed among classes as well as among regions. Let alone movement towards...
James Petras Analysing American imperial decline this paper draws attention to the elements that define the specificities of this decline. These include general decline of the national political...
