Utsa Patnaik è un'economista marxista indiana il cui lavoro approfondisce la transizione dalle società agrarie e prevalentemente contadine a quelle industriali, esaminando questo processo sia storicamente che nell'India contemporanea. La sua ricerca affronta criticamente le questioni della sicurezza alimentare e della povertà. Le analisi di Patnaik offrono profonde intuizioni sulle strutture socio-economiche e sulle sfide che le nazioni in via di sviluppo devono affrontare. Fornisce una prospettiva vitale sui meccanismi economici e le loro conseguenze sociali.
Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book-winner of the Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award
The book presents selected writings from Karl Marx's Kapital, focusing on the agrarian question and its relationship with capital and ground rent. It delves into Marx's analysis of agricultural production, land ownership, and the economic implications of rent on agrarian societies. Through these excerpts, readers gain insight into Marx's critique of capitalism and its effects on rural economies, highlighting the struggles between labor, land, and capital in the context of social and economic dynamics.
A concise theory of historical and contemporary imperialism based on the prices of agricultural products and their movement from the underdeveloped to the developed world.