Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik retired as Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Time, Inflation and Growth (1988), Economics and Egalitarianism (1991), Whatever Happened to Imperialism and other essays (1995), Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), The Retreat to Unfreedom (2003), The Value of Money (2008) and Re-Envisioning Socialism (2011). He is the Editor of the journal Social Scientist.
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Lenin's Imperialism is one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. Its significance arises not so much from the data it provides; nor does it arise from the sheer fact that it expla...
There's really no escaping it: if you want to understand capitalism, you simply have to read Karl Marx's 'Capital'.
But this is easier said than done. 'Capital' is Marx's magnum opus consisti...
Prakash Karat, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib, Prabhat Patnaik
It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Rarely has call to arms been phrased in a language of such zest, beauty and purity. One hun...
A concise theory of historical and contemporary imperialism based on asymmetric production capacities, and the imposition of income deflation on ex-colonized and developing country populations to m...
Prakash Karat, Prabir Purkayastha, Irfan Habib, Prabhat Patnaik, Amar Farooqui, B. T. Ranadive, Sitaram Yechury, Jodi Dean, Shahrzad Mojab
The first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years. This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history. Its achievements have been pilloried – its demise being the ...

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