Revisiting The Political Economy of Development in India
Revisiting The Political Economy of Development in India
Pranab Bardhan’s 1984 book The Political Economy of Development in India (PEDI) has had enduring influence. For students of Indian political economy it quickly became a scholarly touchstone. In the years since publication, however, political economy has fallen out of favour in South Asian studies. The contributors to this volume revive class analysis to interrogate India’s great transformation since the 1980s. This chapter outlines Bardhan’s key analytical tools, his innovative fusion of Marxist and rational-choice theory, and his diagnosis of India’s deep collective-action problems as a result of fierce competition between dominant classes. It then surveys the chapters that follow, which together find striking continuities in contemporary Indian political economy in the face of three decades of liberalization.
Keywords: political economy, state–society relations, class analysis, liberalization, collective action, bureaucracy, corporate sector, economic growth, India
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