Five Questions with Prof. Prabhat Patnaik/ Leading Economist from Baraza Video on Vimeo.
Leading economist and former Kerala State Planning Board Vice-Chairman Prabhat Patnaik was part of a four-member high-power task force at the United Nations responsible for recommending reforms of the global financial system. Professor Patnaik is a trenchant critic of neo-liberalism. He is based in India and is the editor for the journal Social Scientist.
Selected Lectures:
Selected Books:
- Re-envisioning Socialism (2011)
- Excursus In History: Essays on some ideas of Irfan Habib (ed. 2011)
- The Value of Money (2009)
- Retreat to Unfreedom: Essays on the Emerging World Order (2003)
- Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997)
- Macroeconomics (ed. 1997)
- Whatever Happened to Imperialism and other essays (1995)
- Economics and Egalitarianism (1991)
- Time, Inflation and Growth (1988)
Selected Writing
- Notes on contemporary Imperialism (2012)
- Lessons from the Indian Experience (2011)
- ‘Finance Capital, Fiscal Deficits And The Current Global Crisis’ in Progressive Fiscal Policy in India (2011)
- Imperialism and its Follies (2011)
Below, are our usual Five Questions:
- 2011 has marked the revival of Gandhian-style revolution. These revolutions are unique in that they stem from practical realities and shun standardized theory. What do you think the prospects are for such demands for change that function in the absence of macro-social frameworks and ideologies? What ideas or discourses are likely to rise to the fore in the future? Does the nation state have a future as the main unit of political organization? If not, how will people and societies be organized?
- What is the role of religion in modern society? Is there a space for religion in public/political discourse? How is the role of religion evolving in society today? How will it evolve in the future?
- What contemporary ideas are likely to have a significant impact in shaping the future and why?
- What is the future of the relations among people of the “global south” (economies previously labeled “developing economies” including the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, South, South East Asia and parts of the Middle East)? How do you think the current changes taking place in these economies will effect the global order at large?
- What is the future of Area Studies?