The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays

Utsa Patnaik???s book is as much a comment on the state of economics as a discipline today, as on the economic policies that are ruining the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the Third World. The unifying theme of her essays is the impact on the Third World of the new imperialism in the present era, which takes the form of deflationary neo-liberal ???economic reforms???, a thrust towards free trade and subservient agriculture. She show how these policies are causing unprecedented rural distress and universal hunger in the developing countries including India. Hers is a voice of true scholarship and conscience. About The Author: Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is author of The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy (1999); Peasant Class Differentiation: A Study in Method with Reference to Haryana (1987); The Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism in India (1985). She has also edited several collections including The Agrarian Question in Marx and His Successors. Table of Contents 1. The Ideology of Overpopulation 2. The Costs of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the Indian Economy 3. The economic and Demographic Collapse in Russia 4. Asia Must Starve to Feed the West 5. Peasant Resistance to Globalisation: Chiapas a Symbol 6. Mass Income Deflation, Burgeoning Foodstocks 7. Foodstocks and Hunger Causes of Agrarian Distress 8. The Republic of Hunger 9. Theorising Food Security and Poverty in the Era of Economic Reforms 10. It is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up 11. Agrarian Crisis under Neo-Imperialism and the Importance of Peasant Resistance.