Dr. Philip P. Joseph (Philip P.J.) obtained his post-graduate degree from Indore University (DAVV), and M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Kerala University. He joined as a Lecturer in Economics at St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala, and became its Professor and Principal. Dr. Philip P.J. was chosen as national Associate of the University Grants Commission and served three terms in the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He was the Chairman of the Board of Studies of both undergraduate and graduate courses. He was Senate Member of the University for two terms and Academic Council member from the Principal's constituency. He also participated in a Colloquium on Agrarian Studies held at Yale University in September and October of 1996. Dr. Philip P. J. has travelled extensively both within and outside India. Dr. Philip P. J. is an Associate Faculty of Vichara, a non-governmental organization which has been organizing seminars and workshops on various social science topics in different parts of India. He has published Papers and articles in periodicals for the last forty years. His three books namely Economics Capitalism and alternative Systems (2007), Globalization, Plunder of Land human resources (2008), Global Economic Crisis: End of Growth Paradigms? (2009-Jointly published with two other scholars) and a fourth book: Issues of Globalization (in Malayalam) deal mainly with economic inequalities and plunder of resources.
