By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC I summarise here, with a bit of my own tweaking, the social-anthropological argumentation of Molly Scott Cato (pictured), Professor of Green Economics at the University of Roehampton, London. Like in Rishab Shetty’s Kantara movie, the shaman is an intermediary between human communities and their ecosystem. [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar and Ela Bhatt (pictured below) are among the most famous female social movement workers in India. Aruna Roy was the founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, and Medha Patkar, of Narmada Bachao Andolan. Ela Bhatt was the founder of the Self [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Online Platform Economy refers to economic activities orchestrated by a system of internet connected processes (digital platforms). It refers to “economic and social activity facilitated by platforms. Such platforms are typically online sales or technology frameworks. By far the most common type are "transaction platforms", [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Suppose you reveal to me the flame in yourself as also myself, and I reveal to you the flame in myself as also yourself in going up the hill of “exploring alternatives”. And suppose that means, both of us are seeking “to analyze the economic [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Ha-Joon Chang, now with SOAS and earlier with Cambridge University Economics Department, is a very unassuming and friendly guy. I have had a memorable interaction with him. And like Robert Skidelsky, he is a great economics educator for the laypeople, the masses. A sharp, witty [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Professor Frederic Sterling Lee (known to his family as Fritz), whom you see above, was a committed intellectual powerhouse of heterodox economics. Surely, no one had championed and laboured for the cause of heterodoxy communitarianism as he did till he breathed his last at the [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC You have graduated in Chicagonomics—Chicago Free Market Economics. And you have interned for long with the centre-right American Enterprise Institute, which is worried about left-wing domination of Humanities and Social Sciences. In contrast, I belong to the neither pro-Left nor pro-Right Heterodox Academy. Our motto [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Steeped in the micro and macro mainstream economics of NEP (New Education Policy) of New India, you won’t know that something called heterodox economics is alive and flourishing. For a change, though, meet the elderly Professor Tony Lawson as seen above. He is a British [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Senior undergrad and Masters students do not like me when I ask them: what is your politics and consequently, what is your economics? Or alternatively, what economics are you doing and what is its politics? Classifying political/social ideas and coherently relating them to economic ideas [...]
By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Department of Economics, SRCC Like George Orwell’s portrayal of state or party surveillance (Big Brother is Watching You), Shoshana Zuboff, as you see above, has got a ground breaking portrayal of the surveillance capitalist practices of corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Shoshana, a radical professor retired from [...]
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