British economist Meghnad Desai Authored a New Book titled “The Poverty of Political Economics”

British economist Meghnad Desai Authored a New Book titled “The Poverty of Political Economics”

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Category : Miscellaneous Published on: February 02 2023

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  • India-born naturalised British economist Meghnad Desai has authored a new book titled “The Poverty Of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor” which highlights how the discipline of economics, since the time it evolved from the late 18th century, systematically kept the interests of the poor at the periphery. 
  • The book is published by HarperCollins Publishers India.
  • The book examines the philosophical traditions that have shaped economics across the world in this engrossing new book. 
  • Through this book, Meghnad Desai studies the contributions of economics to domestic and international politics from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, and from the Great Depression to the collapse of the Lehmann Brothers.
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