Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for EveryoneThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Jean Drèze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. In Sense and Solidarity Drèze offers unique insight on issues of hunger, inequality, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates that often accompanied them. "Jholawala" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected.Sense and Solidarity spans the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create. |
Contents
DROUGHT AND HUNGER | |
POVERTY | |
SCHOOL MEALS | |
HEALTH CARE | |
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION | |
Shiva Kumar | |
EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE | |
Siddhartha | |
FOOD SECURITY AND THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | |
Khera | |
CORPORATE POWER AND TECHNOCRACY | |
WAR AND PEACE | |
10 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aadhaar achievements action activities approach areas Bangladesh bank basic better Bihar caste cent central Chhattisgarh child corruption cost course Delhi discussed distribution district Drèze economic effective Employment entitlements essay evidence expenditure experience fact families findings Food Security further Guarantee happened households ICDS idea important improved India indicators initial instance institutions interest issues Jharkhand Kashmir least living look major matter midday meals month NREGA nuclear nutrition official payments pensions person Planning political poor possible poverty line Pradesh problem programmes progress proposal Raghuram Rajan Rajasthan ration reason recent rural sample schemes situation social survey Tamil Nadu things universal village wage women workers