This volume puts together selected writings by the Gandhian economist, J.C. Kumarappa (1892-1960), in the contemporary context of aggressive neoliberal economics being executed by global corporations with national governments in the role of able facilitators.
The selection covers themes like Kumarappa's economic thought, his politics of anti-imperialism and world peace, his views on religion– particularly on Christianity, his ideas about education, science, agriculture, the village economy and the land question, cottage and large-scale industries and on the socialist models presented by the then Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Self-reliance and sustainability are vital themes in his oeuvre; in short, an economy of permanence. |
