Initiated on 20 April, the online petition is addressed to all the judges of the Supreme Court, urging upon them to reconsider the verdict on the Judge Loya case. The full text is pasted below.
Veteran political economist Amiya Kumar Bagchi (amiya.bagchi@gmail.com) looks back on a long association with Economic Weekly and Economic and Political Weekly, which contributed to his intellectual development, made him a member of the EPW subfamily and resulted in friendships that he still cherishes.
Thank you very much for the delightful interview with Ashok Mitra you have published (EPW, 20 August 2016). But, there are two serious mistakes in it. Richard Goodwin was not John F Kennedy’s speech-writer, he was a communist.
We, the undersigned call upon the UPA government not to be in a hurry to implement the Indo-US Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. A majority in the Indian Parliament is opposed to this “deal”.
Crop-Sharing Tenancy in Agriculture A Rejoinder Amiya Bagchi THIS is a belated response to the letter of P K Bardhan and T N Srinivasan ("Share Cropping", March 9, 1974, p 377).* Bardhan and Srinivasan (B-S for short) have attempted a rebuttal of some brief critical comments I had made, in passing,1 on their joint paper, "Crop-Sharing Tenancy in Agriculture; A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis'.2 I had made my comments brief (a) because I did not want to go into the irrelevant niceties of the neoclassical paradigm and (b) because I had thought that it would be abundantly clear that. the B-S paper also had implicit in it the basic assumption of neoclassical general equilibrium structures, viz, automatic full employment of labour. However, it would appear that even eminent practitioners of marginalist economics have to be reminded of certain elementary corollaries of the Thirtynine Articles they swear by, since they tend to be ensnared by the mathematical cobwebs they are so fond of weaving. Hence regretfully I must recapitulate certain properties of purely competitive models as part of my critique.
Amiya Bagchi This article, and the three others which follow it, attempt to critically examine the approach to development planning suggested by Jagdish Bhagwati and Padma Desai in their book "India; Planning for Industrialisation" which is one of the series of studies of Industrialisation and Trade Policies sponsored by the OECD.
Amiya Bagchi The features of the economic situation that aid models abstract from are more important in explain ing, predicting or prescribing for economic growth in India than the features that they capture.
Amiya Bagchi In his book "The Structure of Corporate Private Sector: A Study of Concentration, Ownership and Control" (Asia Publishing House, 1966) R K Hazari establishes that the concentration of economic power in the corporate private sector in India had definitely increased between 1951 and 1958. Hazari also provides a wealth of detail on the techniques used by business houses to acquire and maintain control over the companies in their fold and throws valuable light on the disjunction or conjunction of ownership and control.
