Terms of Trade and Class Relations - An Essay in Political Economy
Dr Ashok Mitra
Price
475
ISBN
9788180280191
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2004
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
D C Publishers

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Recognised as an outstanding piece of work in political economy, Dr Ashok Mitra’s Terms of Trade and Class Relations was originally published in London in 1977. The book has been unavailable for over twenty years. The books presents a novel analysis and a historical account of a crucial phase of India's post-Independence development. At a deeper level, the book puts forward the general proposition that social distribution of income, and hence by implication the process of economic growth, is determined by relative class strength manifested both in the economic and political domains which in turn closely interact with one another. In this new imprint in Chronicles Classics the author reflects, in his new introductory essay, on the agenda he had in mind when he wrote this work and the implications of the changes which have been seen in the Indian economic landscape since then.

Ashok Mitra is among the foremost economists of India. He taught economics at Lucknow University, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management and Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He was Chairman, Agricultural Prices Commission, Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and Finance Minister of West Bengal. While a National Fellow of the ICSSR and a visiting professor at the University of Sussex, he wrote the Terms of Trade and Class Relations. Hist other noteworthy work is The Share of Wages in National Income. Apart from his academic writings, he is well known for his column "Calcutta Diary" in the Economic and Political Weekly. An essayist of stature in Bengali, he has received several awards for the quality of his bengali prose, including the Sahitya Akademi award.