Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy

Byasdeb Dasgupta pursued his Ph.D under the supervision of Professor Sunanda Sen at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on Third World Debt Crisis during the eighties in 1996. He started his professional career as Lecturer of Economics at the Department of Economics of University where he is still located as Associate Professor. He has visited China and several countries in Europe as Visiting Professor. He had published articles in several journals and books. Also, along with Professor Sunanda Sen, they had written a book on Unfreedom and Wage Work – Labour in India’s Manufacturing Industry (SAGE, 2009). Presently Byasdeb is pursuing two research projects – one on Labour Security in Urban Informal Economy and the other on Imperialism – Old and New.

1. Finance And Growth Under Capitalism, Prabhat Patnaik 2. The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons We Should Have Learned and An Agenda for Reform, L. Randall Wray 3. The Problem of Power in Finance in India and Brazil, Gary Dymsky 4. The Social Impact of Globalisation, Jan Kregel 5. Financialisation, Labour Market Flexibility and Global Crisis - A Marxist Perspective, Byasdeb Dasgupta 6. The Evolution of Income Distribution in Semi-Industrialised Economies of Latin America - Assessment in terms of Economic Theories, Pierre Salama 7. A Methodological Agenda for New Economic Thinking, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo 8. Rethinking the Falling Rate of Profit and the Crisis of Capitalism, Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Kumar Dhar 9. Comparative Advantage, Industrial Policy And The World Bank: Back To First Principles, Ajit Singh 10. Development in a Time of Financial Crises: How Good is the Bad News? Re-orienting Macroeconomic Policies, Jayati Ghosh 11. Globalization and the Labour Movement: Challenges and Responses, Ronaldo P. Munck 12. Informal Employment in Thailand, Sukti Dasgupta, Ruttiya Bhula and Tiraphap Fakthong