期刊全称 | Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh | 期刊简称 | An Intellectual Biog | 影响因子2023 | Ashwani Saith | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Provides an insight into the key issues and transformations of Cambridge economics over the last fifty years.Examines the life and works of Ajit Singh within the wider context of the history of econom | 学科分类 | Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. Unorthodox, outspoken, and invariably rigorous, Ajit Singh made highly significant contributions to industrial economics, corporate governance and finance, and stock markets – developing empirically sound refutations of neoclassical tenets. He was much respected for his challenges both to orthodox economics, and to the one-size-fits-all free-market policy prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions in relation to late-industrialising developing economies. Throughout his career, Ajit remained an analyst and apostle of State-enabled accelerated industrialisation as the key to transformative development in the post-colonial Global South. The author traces Ajit Singh’s radical perspectives to their roots in the early post-colonial nationalist societal aspirations for self-determination and autonomous and rapid egalitarian development – whether in his native Punjab, India, or the third | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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