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The speakers summarily dismiss - or, rather, ignore -  Jayati Ghosh's observation that patents on penicillin were waived during the war. This remarkable historical precedent nowhere occurs again in the podcast.

In this part of the world, we are used to lives being sacrificed for economic orthodoxy. Laissez faire policies were upheld in 1866 during a famine in Orissa in British India, in the mistaken belief of Nassau Senior and the Manchester School that the market would provide.  It didn't.

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Interpretación del imperialismo contemporáneo: lecciones de Samir Amin

Interpretación del imperialismo contemporáneo: lecciones de Samir Amin

Jayati Ghosh   La vida y el trabajo de Samir Amin dejaron muchos legados importantes, que pueden seguir enriqueciéndolos si sólo los reconocemos adecuadamente. Trajo un “optimismo infatigable de la voluntad” a procesos complejos de cambio político, social y económico, que implicaron una energía que no fue disuadida en absoluto por el “pesimismo del intelecto” que su mente afilada podía generar.…

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Delhi riots: Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav, Jayati Ghosh, others named in chargesheet Image Source : FILE PHOTO Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav, others named in chargesheet. The Delhi Police has named CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayati Ghosh and Delhi University professor Apoorvanand in a supplementary charge sheet in the February riots cases, accusing them of "provoking and mobilising" anti-CAA protesters.

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‘Unprecedented crisis; do whatever it takes’: Jayati Ghosh on Covid-19

In the wake of the national lockdown, the Indian economy been severely affected. The maximum impact is expected to be on daily wage workers and those below the poverty line. To understand the various economic dimensions of the pandemic and lockdown, Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a prominent development economist, spoke to Hindustan Times:

How is the…

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Joseph Stiglitz: «L’Europe est au bord de l’abîme»

Joseph Stiglitz: «L’Europe est au bord de l’abîme»

5 SEPTEMBRE 2018 PAR MATHIEU MAGNAUDEIX

Dans un entretien à Mediapart, le célèbre prix Nobel d’économie Joseph Stiglitz s’inquiète de la poursuite de l’austérité dans la zone euro. Il s’alarme aussi des politiques de Donald Trump et de l’explosion des inégalités, dix ans après la crise financière de 2008. Plus que jamais, il plaide pour « augmenter les salaires », réguler la finance et lutter…

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Currency notes are absolutely crucial to India’s legal market economy. The two cancelled notes account for 86% of all the currency in circulation; over 90% of all transactions are conducted in cash, and over 85% of workers get their incomes in cash. With one stroke Modi dealt a crippling blow to all such exchange, affecting not just the “black market” he was supposedly targeting, but also almost every Indian. Ironically, the rich – more likely to be “cashless” – are relatively unscathed; it is the poor and the middle classes, hugely reliant on currency for daily activities, who are being battered.

Jayati Ghosh, 'Why the corrupt rich will welcome Modi’s ‘surgical strike on corruption’', The Guardian

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Only a small proportion of the funds received from illicit tax-evading activities is kept in the form of cash, and almost never by large players. They tend instead to buy real estate and other property, hold gold and stocks and shares and, most of all, move the money abroad. So this move touches only a tiny fraction of the assets accumulated through illegal activities. In any case, it also does nothing to control the source: not just bribery and corruption, but also inaccurate invoicing by companies, under-reporting of sales values and overstating costs, reporting non-existent transactions and so on. These don’t require cash: they are easier and faster using electronic means. Money on its own has no particular colour; as it flows through different transactions, it changes from white to black to grey.

Jayati Ghosh, 'Why the corrupt rich will welcome Modi’s ‘surgical strike on corruption’', The Guardian

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Less than 4% of workers in India come under labour protection, and even those protections have become more and more eroded. There’s a general sense that instead of targeting poverty they are targeting the poor, and there has been a real running down of spending on essential public services. Private employers who wish to discourage any kind of unionisation are being actively encouraged by the central government.

Prof Jayati Ghosh, development economist at Jawaharlal Nehru University