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Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik (Hardcover)
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Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik (Hardcover)
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Prabhat Patnaik's academic insights and strong political commitment
have stimulated intellectual activity and inspired personal regard
across a multitude of people from all walks of life. This volume
brings together contributions from some who have benefited from
interaction with him over decades, in a tribute and continuing
conversation. Patnaik, born 19 September 1945 in Odisha, India, is
one of the outstanding economists of his generation and a leading
Marxist theoretician in the world today. Versatile in his knowledge
and mastery of different schools of thought but unflinching in his
commitment to the use and extension of a Marxist approach, he has
influenced several generations of social scientists through his
extensive writing, his contributions to academic discourse, and his
life as a tireless public intellectual. Born to parents who were
deeply committed to the communist cause and were members of the
Communist Party of India, Patnaik grew up in a commune in his early
years, an experience that Ashok Mitra (his friend and comrade)
believes deeply influenced who he became. His brilliance at all
stages of his career is legendary. After studying at St Stephens'
College and the Delhi School of Economics in Delhi University, he
received a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University. He taught at
the University of Cambridge, England, where he held a tenured
position, which he chose to give up to return to India to join the
founding faculty of the Centre for Economic Studies in the School
of Social Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he taught
for around four decades. He is currently professor emeritus at
Jawaharlal Nehru University. Through his work as an academic, as
editor of the journal Social Scientist and as a columnist in
People's Democracy, Patnaik has contributed immensely to developing
a theoretical understanding of India's economy and society, and the
tactics and strategy needed to change it in a socialist direction.
His work has been recognized widely and he has been awarded several
academic honors, including the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize in Social Science
Research in 1986 and an honorary doctorate by the School of African
and Oriental Studies, University of London in 2012. But he is
better known as a leading theoretician of the Left who has kept
alive the need for advancing theory to support the struggle for an
alternative society. He put into practice his ideas as a heterodox
economist when he successfully served as Vice-Chairman of the
Kerala State Planning Board under the Left Democratic Front
government in Kerala from June 2006 to July 2011.
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