Jean Drèze

Sense and Solidarity (eBook, ePUB)

Jholawala Economics for Everyone

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Jean Drèze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. In Sense and Solidarity Drèze offers unique insight on issues of hunger, inequality, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates that often accompanied them. "Jholawala" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected.Sense and Solidarity spans the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192569936
• Artikelnr.: 55413995

Autorenporträt

Jean Drèze, development economist, has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989) and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Drought and Hunger
Starving the Poor
Fragile Lifelines, Robust Oppression
The Right to Food and Public Accountability
Memories of Kusumatand (with Bela Bhatia)
The Dark Well of Hunger
2: Poverty
The Poverty Trap
On the Poverty Line
Beyond Small Mercies
Squaring the Poverty Circle (with Angus Deaton)
3: School Meals
Hunger in the Classroom (with Vivek S.)
Food for Equality
Midday Meals and the Joy of Learning
Caste, Class, and Eggs
4: Health Care
Health Checkup
India Leapfrogged
Health at Sixty-six
Small Leap Forward in Child Health
Kerala Tops, Gujarat Flops, Bihar Hops (with Reetika Khera)
5: Child Development and Elementary Education
Class Struggle (with the PROBE Team)
The Welfare State in Tamil Nadu
Children Under Six: Out of Focus
Struggling to Learn (with Anuradha De, Meera Samson, and A.K. Shiva Kumar)
Progress of Children Under Six
6: Employment Guarantee
Employment as a Social Responsibility
Employment Guarantee and Its Discontents
Myths and Reality of Corruption (with Reetika Khera and Siddhartha)
Employment Guarantee or Slave Labour?
Guaranteeing Productive Work
7: Food Security and the Public Distribution System
Food Security Act: Indecent Proposal?
The PDS Turnaround in Chhattisgarh (with Reetika Khera)
Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System (with Reetika Khera)
The Food Security Debate in India
Poor States Catch Up
8: Corporate Power and Technocracy
Glucose for the Lok Sabha? (with Reetika Khera)
Nehruvian Budget in the Corporate Age
Unique Identity Dilemma
The Aadhaar Coup
Dark Clouds over the PDS
9: War and Peace
Nuclear Deterrence: From MAD to Worse
The Future of War in Retrospect
Kashmir: Manufacturing Ethnic Conflict
The Warped Logic of Nuclear Gambles
India and the Deal: Partner or Pawn?
Kashmir's Hidden Uprising
10: Top-Up
Rang de Basti (with Bela Bhatia)
Voting in Maoist Land
The Bribing Game
The Quiet Grip of Caste
The Gujarat Muddle
On the Mythology of Social Policy
The Bullet Train Syndrome
The Mother of All Disruptions
Decoding Universal Basic Income
Development and Public-spiritedness