The Republic of Hunger And Other Essays

by Patnaik, Utsa

• ISBN13: 9780850366068
• ISBN10: 0850366062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Merlin Press

Summary

Showing how current policies are causing unprecedented rural distress and widespread hunger, this exploration delves into four developing regionsIndia, the Philippines, Mexico, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis considers both the state of economics as a discipline and the economic policies that ruin the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the third world. In these four regions, imperialism presents itself through deflationary, neoliberal "economic reforms," a thrust towards free trade, and the spread of subservient agriculture. The 12 essays presented offer an alternative look to this dire situation.

Author Biography

Utsa Patnaik is a professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is the author or coauthor of The Agrarian Question and the Development of Capitalism in India, The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy, The Making of History: Essays Presented to Irfan Habib, and Peasant Class Differentiation: A Study in Method with Reference to Haryana. She has also edited several collections, including The Agrarian Question in Marx and His Successors and Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Ideology of Overpopulation	p. 11
The Costs of Free Trade: The WTO Regime and the Indian Economy	p. 17
The Economic and Demographic Collapse in Russia	p. 51
The Loss of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 57
Asia Must Starve to Feed the West: The Rice Debacle in the Philippines	p. 73
Peasant Resistance to Globalisation: Chiapas a Symbol	p. 81
Mass Income Deflation, Burgeoning Foodstocks	p. 87
Foodstocks and Hunger: Causes of Agrarian Distress	p. 95
The Republic of Hunger	p. 115
Theorising Food Security and Poverty in the Era of Economic Reforms	p. 151
It is Time for Kumbhakarna to Wake Up	p. 199
Agrarian Crisis under Neo-Imperialism and the Importance of Peasant Resistance	p. 205
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