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... Read more.
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... Read more.
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... Read more.
Digitalisation in India: The Class Agenda
The champions of digitalisation claim that “India is upgrading – from an offline, cash, informal, low productivity economy to an online, cashless, formal, high... Read more.
The Conditions of India’s Peasantry and the Digitalisation of Agriculture
The Government’s project of digitalising India’s agriculture is premised on a distorted understanding of both private corporations and the mass of India’s... Read more.
Fintech and the Mirage of ‘Financial Inclusion’
The Government and the RBI have been propagating the notion that digital lenders can complete the unfinished agenda of ‘financial inclusion’, and even replace... Read more.
Imperialism and the Digitalisation of India
Examining India’s digital sector in relation to the world economy, we observe the following: (1) the creation of an international division of labour in the digital... Read more.
Spurious Claims of Giant Fiscal Savings; Grim Realities
Tax revenues have stagnated, and grown even more regressive, during the decade of digitalisation. Claims of huge savings due to digitalisation are not only false,... Read more.
The Impact of Digitization on India’s Economy
The decade of 'peak digitalisation' has witnessed depressed consumption, stalled investment, retrogression in the pattern of employment, and falling real wages.... Read more.
Introduction
The present peasant movement in the relatively developed regions is not a sudden development, but the product of a long-festering agrarian crisis, much before the... Read more.