The Value of Money
The Value of Money
Beyond Liberalism
Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. “Classical liberalism” tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself, would be characterized by mass social ills and argue that state intervention is necessary to guarantee individual freedom. This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik demonstrates that liberalism and Marxism provide vastly differing accounts of individual freedom and the forces that restrict it. In the Marxist view, people, contrary to appearances, lack real agency under capitalism. Competition coerces individuals to act according to the impersonal logic of capitalism, making them mere instruments of the system. In this way, capitalism creates universal alienation, and true individual freedom is possible only through overcoming it. Patnaik argues that socialism can secure individual agency in both economic and
The Culture of Clothes
A colourful celebration of costumes and cultures from around the world. Celebrate world dress with this beautifully illustrated compendium of clothing. From colourful kimonos to dazzling flamenco dresses, this book takes you on a journey through the continents to discover the incredible variety of traditional dress. With vibrant artwork by Chaaya Prabhat, this is a colourful celebration of clothing and cultures around the world.
Citizenship in Times of Turmoil?
''When the exception becomes the norm, the power of the sovereign is arbitrary, just as in pre-democratic times. But such arbitrariness is not random: it is applied primarily to certain categories of what used to be called ''the lower orders'' of ...
Theory of Imperialism
In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of t...
High Performance Parallel I/O
Gain Critical Insight into the Parallel I/O Ecosystem Parallel I/O is an integral component of modern high performance computing (HPC), especially in storing and processing very large datasets to facilitate scientific discovery. Revealing the stat...
As Large As Life
26 habitats to explore, featuring more than 250 animals. Did you know that a sword-billed hummingbird has a beak longer than its body, that a giant anteater's tongue can delve two feet into a termite mound in pursuit of food, or that a lion's mane...
Capital and Imperialism
Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking b...
Demonetisation Decoded
On the night of 8 November 2016, at 8:15 pm, India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced in a televised broadcast to the nation that with effect from midnight, currency notes of denominations Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 would no longer be legal tende...
System-Level Validation
This book covers state-of-the art techniques for high-level modeling and validation of complex hardware/software systems, including those with multicore architectures.¿ Readers will learn to avoid time-consuming and error-prone validation from the...
Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery
In the decades following the globalization of the world economy, trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery have emerged as significant global problems. States negotiated the Palermo Protocol in 2000 under which they agreed to criminalize traffi...
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor
Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' right...
Aparajay - 'Four roads, one journey'
मुंबई स्ट्रीट सिब्लिंग्स चार ऐसे बच्चों की कहानी है, जिन्होंने बेघर होने की पीड़ा झेली, लेकिन एक-दूसरे का सहारा बनकर संघर्ष किया। यह सिर्फ एक किताब नहीं, बल्कि उन अनसुनी आवाज़ों की गूंज है, जो सड़कों पर सांस लेती हैं। यह पुस्तक उनके सपनों, संघर्षों और समाज की कठोर सच्चाइयों को उजागर करती है, जिससे हम यह सोचने पर मजबूर होते हैं कि क्या हम इन बच्चों के लिए कुछ कर सकते हैं? About the Author: मैं एक लेखिका और समाजसेवी हूँ, जिसने हमेशा उन कहानियों को उजागर करने की कोशिश की है, जो अक्सर अनसुनी रह जाती हैं। मेरा लेखन मेरे अनुभवों, समा
Decolonising Heritage in South Asia
This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretati...
The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia
Prior to European expansion, communities of the Indian subcontinent had a strong maritime orientation. In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray explores seafaring activity, religious travel and political economy in this ancient period...
Colonial Archaeology in South Asia
This volume discusses larger issues relating to the practice and institutionalization of the discipline of archaeology under British rule and assesses the extent to which colonial intervention shaped the nascent discipline of archaeology in South ...
Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and d...
Joothan
Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced...
Towards an Economic Sociology of Law
Reflecting a developing trend towards interdisciplinary research in economics and law, this agenda-setting volume makes the case¿for¿economic sociology of law¿- an emerging field that draws on empirical, analytical and normative insights from soci...
Power System Stability and Control, Second Edition
The classic guide to power system stability and control-updated for the latest advances This thoroughly revised engineering guide contains the hands-on information needed to understand, model, analyze, and solve problems using the latest te...
Governance Feminism
Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas-but by no means all-have entered into state and state-like power in recent...
Routledge Handbook of Law and Society
This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies. A one-volume introduction to academic resources and ideas that are relevant...