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Aspects Completes 35 Years

(Vikas Bajpai)

  • What Explains India’s Response to Trump?

    What Explains India’s Response to Trump?

    To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling. Consider: Not only has Trump repeatedly held up India as a “big abuser” of trade ties, deported Indians in a most inhuman fashion, mocked India, he has also levied heavy tariffs on Indian exports, entirely…

  • The Adani Group and International Capital

    The Adani Group and International Capital

    The year 2023 was a tumultuous one for the Adani Group of companies. We look here at a limited question: what, if anything, did Adani’s crisis and his recovery signify about his relationship with international capital and the West? In what way are India and Indian businessmen making their presence felt in the world?

  • Thirty-Five Years of Aspects

    Thirty-Five Years of Aspects

    The economy should be the concern of ordinary people. For it is they who work it. And the quality of their lives, their joys and tragedies, are decided by the way the economy functions. Thus began the first editorial, “Why ‘Aspects’?” in Aspects of India’s Economy no. 1, July 1990. That economy, which shaped the…

Research Unit for Political Economy

The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E), located in Mumbai (Bombay), India, is constituted under the People’s Research Trust. R.U.P.E runs on voluntary labour and limited finances raised from personal contributions. It is not affiliated to any other body.

R.U.P.E is concerned with analysing, at the theoretical and empirical levels, various aspects of the economic life of the country and its institutions. It aims to compile, analyse and present information so as to enable people to understand the actual mechanics of their everyday economic life. And in this it aims to take the assistance and insights of people engaged in every sphere of productive work and society.

It feels that much of the research currently carried out with heavy funding is conditioned directly and indirectly by the implicit frame set by the funders.

R.U.P.E does not accept funds from foreign institutions, the corporate sector or the Government. It runs on limited finances raised from personal contributions. Contributions towards its work, either monetary or in the form of actual work, are welcome.

The R.U.P.E publishes Aspects of India’s Economy, a journal which aims to explain aspects of people’s everyday economic life in terms that can easily be understood, and to link them with the nature of the country’s political economy. It also publishes a blog at rupeindia.wordpress.com.