Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh

An Intellectual Biography of the Radical Sikh Economist

AvAshwani Saith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 32 mm
Vikt:758 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
Antal sidor:463
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030124212

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Ashwani Saith is Emeritus Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands. He has held positions at the Delhi School of Economics; Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, where he took his PhD; Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University; and at the London School of Economics where he was the first Chair of Development Studies and Director of its Development Studies Institute. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals, and published extensively on the political economy of development and on economic history.

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“This book will be useful not only to the aficionados of Cambridge University but to all students of economic development and of the tactics neoclassical economists have adopted all over the world to drive out reality-based heterodox economics.” (Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Frontline, frontline.thehindu.com, September 13, 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Early Years: Forging the Imaginary.- 2. Washington, First Stop: Sikhism, Racism, and Steel.- 3. Berkeley, The Launch Pad.- 4. Cambridge: Home From Home.- 5. Faculty Wars.- 6. King of Queens’.- 7. Economics as Concentrated Politics.- 8. Punjab in the Soul.- 9.A Man For All Seasons.- 10. Cambridge to the End: The Final Battle.