Joan Robinson in Princely India / / Pervez Tahir

• Autore: Tahir Pervez
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.9005
• Soggetto topico: Development economics
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: In the Land of Princes -- Chapter 2: An Unseemly Memsaab -- Gun Salute States -- India Connection -- Resident in Gwalior -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Robinsons -- The Indian Sojourn -- Joan's Friend and a Committee of the Raj -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Chapter 4: Discovering a Book -- Autobiography of a Co-author -- Not Much of a Discovery, After All -- Strange Osmosis -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Chapter 5: Austin Carries the Day -- Official Biographer -- Not the Joan of Provocativeness -- Blogs on Both of Them -- Some Recognition: Finally -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Part II: Thinking Development: Then and Later -- Chapter 6: Precolonial Underdevelopment -- The Concept -- Descriptive Features of the Village Economy -- Analytics of Stagnation -- Social Statics, Caste and Hereditary Occupations -- Knitting the Story -- References -- Chapter 7: Colonial Development -- The Idea of Development -- Colonialism and the Transition to the World Economy -- Economic Nationalism -- Western Industrialism -- References -- Chapter 8: Is There a Common Thread? -- Analytical Optimism -- Pessimism About Capitalist Development -- Leapfrogging -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Part III: Transfer of Resources from Princely India to British India -- Chapter 9: Net Resource Outflow -- Austin Robinson's Applied Work -- The Assumptions -- Overall Transfer: An Evaluation -- The Harcourt Puzzle -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Chapter 10: Liabilities of the States -- Defence and Internal Security -- Debt Servicing -- Railways -- Ports and Highways. ; Post, Telephones and Telegraph -- Public Works -- References -- Published Works -- Chapter 11: Revenue Contributions -- The Assumptions -- Customs -- Excise Duties -- Income Tax -- State Monopolies -- Currency and Mints -- References -- Published Works -- Part IV: The Drain, Backwardness and the State -- Chapter 12: The Drain and Backwardness -- The Drain Controversy -- Causes of Backwardness -- Economic Development: Problem and Policy -- Political Consequence: Interdependent Development -- Economic Consequence: Catching Up -- References -- Published Works -- Chapter 13: Role of the State -- State, But What State? -- State Accumulation -- Princes and Development -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Chapter 14: Conclusion -- I -- Archival Manuscripts and Published Sections -- II -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Appendix 1: Beyond the Butler Report: The Political Economy of an Indian Zollverein -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Published Works -- Appendix 2 -- XXXIII: The Salt Monopoly -- Appendix 3 -- XXXIV: Railways -- References -- Unpublished Material -- Joan Robinson's Correspondence -- Other Unpublished Material in JVR Collection -- The Papers of Sir Austin Robinson -- Author's Correspondence -- Interviews -- Dissertations/Manuscripts -- Official Records -- Published Works -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Joan Robinson in Princely India
• ISBN: 9783031109058; 9783031109041
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629281003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought