Chirashree Das Gupta

State and Capital in Independent India (eBook, PDF)

Institutions and Accumulations

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a historical account of the relationship between state and capital from independence to the liberalization episodes of the 1980s and after. It provides a focused analysis of the organization of business houses, corporate governance structures, labour laws, and the institution of the family and personal laws, and explains the institutional basis of regional differences in accumulation and uneven development in independent India. By addressing questions of agrarian, capital, technology and fiscal constraints which were characteristic of the economy at independence, this book provides an insightful study of the political economy of the role of changing social relations in India after independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316759196
• Artikelnr.: 48201034

Autorenporträt

Chirashree Das Gupta teaches at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests are the political economy of institutions, economic history and the history of economic thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Globalization and neoliberalism: the context and the debate; 3. Five propositions on the Indian transition state and capital in independent India: the problematic; 4. Policy regimes and macroeconomic outcomes: 1947
66; 5. Institutionalization of the regime of capital in India: 1947
66; 6. Continuity and change in capital accumulation: 1966
80; 7. Sources of accumulation: state intervention and non-intervention; 8. 'Old oligopolies and new entrants' in the pharmaceutical sector; 9. Conclusion; Index.