Emergent nation state and the class of capitalists : through the lens of the Bombay plan

Jayadev, Arjun (2019) Emergent nation state and the class of capitalists : through the lens of the Bombay plan. Economic and Political Weekly, 54 (43). pp. 25-26. ISSN 2349-8846

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Abstract

A few years ago, I was at a talk by a distinguished African economist who was reminiscing about his life in Malawi post-independence. As a youthful leftist, he recalled, he and others would undertake campaigns at the university and shout slogans like “Destroy Capitalism.” With a twinkle in his eye, he ended somewhat wistfully: “The only problem was that we needed capitalists first before we could destroy them, and we didn’t have them!”

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Jayadev, Arjun
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Economics, Indian Economy
Subjects:	Social sciences > Economics
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/2116
Publisher URL:	https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/43/book-reviews/em...

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