India Working : Essays on Society and Economy (Contemporary South Asia)
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'It raises many important issues, and challenges conventional wisdom, forcing the reader to pause and evaluate. It provides a wealth of detail from the author's extensive fieldwork in India. Finally, Harriss-White's trenchant criticisms ... of the divisive and destructive forces that seem to be in the ascendance in Indian politics are right on target.' International Journal of Punjab Studies
'Harriss-White is an economist who has, over the past few decades, been engaged in the analysis of the Indian economy, with a concentration of what she calls 'field economics' in south India. she brings to bear all this knowledge in elucidating various social processes of relevance to capital accumulation, outside of the corporate sector, in India.' Economic and Political Weekly
'Barbara Harriss-White ... brings an anthropologist's training in fieldwork and her own eye for detail to an examination of aspects of India's economy that are often neglected by economists themselves ... an intriguing and interesting book, one that is packed with detailed observations. These observations are the book's strength, and make it worthwhile for professional economists as much as for other social scientists and for general readers.' International Journal of Punjab Studies
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"This book engages with a wide range of scholarship grounded in different disciplines to expand our understanding of how the contemporary Indian economy works. [D]ue credit must also be given to the author Barbara Harris-White for her self-conscious effort to converse with theories and empirical works outside the formal confines of economic studies." Prakash Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Enterprise and Society
India Working : Essays on Society and Economy (Contemporary South Asia)
India Working : Essays on Society and Economy (Contemporary South Asia),Barbara Harriss-White,Jan Breman,G. P. Hawthorn,Ayesha Jalal,Patricia Jeffery,Atul Kohli,Dharma Kumar,Cambridge University Press,0521007631,1947-,1991-,Asia - China,Business / Economics / Finance,Economic Conditions,Economic policy,Economics - General,History,History: World,India,International Relations - General,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Development economics
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