Bøger af Meghnad Desai

For the Right Honourable Harry White, Britain's charismatic and politically savvy prime minister, it is a busy day like any other at 10 Downing Street. Every minute is packed with politics, people and policies, and the odd flirtation. There is a peremptory invitation to lunch with megalomaniac media lord Matt Drummond, a parliamentary rebellion to be batted away, an urgent call from the White House about a crisis in the Middle East. Until, finally, Harry White and his entourage are ready to fly to Glasgow for the last item on their schedule: the Old Firm game between Rangers and Celtic, the traditional Scottish rivals. It is a game that Harry has little interest in, but there are at least two men who have waited many years for exactly this moment. Will they be able to realize their plans?

In the face of Covid-19, how do we reinvent the way that economic policies are formed? This is a remarkable thesis by one of the foremost political economists of our time. Desai argues his point persuasively, with great erudition, insisting that in the twenty-first century, humanity must return to economics.

The Great War at Kurukshetra is over. Eighteen lakh men have died. But the winners are not happy. Yudhishthira and hisbrothers are gripped with sorrow over what they have done. Who will bear the child to continue the Kuru clan? Uttara?Will Asvatthama also destroy the child that she is carrying?Hastinapur is barren of men of any age. It is the King's dharma to help every virgin in the kingdom, cross into womanhood.But Yudhishthira fails. There is now a dharmic crisis. The young woman, who will bear the child, must be found anotherking for the task before sunrise. Else, the kingdom will suffer even more.Who can solve the problem?Krishna, who else! Or rather he knows such a king who can. It is Maya.But Maya declines to follow the king's dharma. His refusal plunges the Kuru kingdom, and even Krishna himself, intoanother crisis.Who is Maya? Can Krishna eventually win him over?Mayabharata is a fascinating narration of the post-Mahabharata story, aided by the deployment of the author's imaginativeand creative powers.

It is the eighteenth century. Emperor Aurangzeb has fallen, the Mughal Empire is a shadow of its former self, and India is rife with civil war. In these times of gardi, you'd have to be a lion to win power, and a wolf to keep it. When the beautiful Savitri, the only daughter of the Chief Minister of Purana Zilla, marries into a rich merchant household in Ranipur, she becomes Anamika. Her future seems assured-she is to bear her loving husband Abhi many children, eventually becoming the lady of the house and perpetuating the family's fortunes.

Recent events around the world have shaken old certainties. Questions are being asked about the survival of the Liberal Order, which has been dominant for over fifty years. The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote have alarmed many commentators. Across Europe too there have been developments-the emergence of fringe parties of the left and right in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Greece-which have disturbed the liberal thought. In India, the arrival of Narendra Modi at the head of the 'Hindu nationalist' Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 had raised fear similar to those in Trump's case.In this perceptive account, Meghnad Desai opens up the debate beyond the West and looks at parallels between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump as two outsiders who broke through the barriers to reach the top. He analyses Asia's challenge to Western hegemony and asks if the conventional wisdom about the hegemony of free trade liberalism needs re-examination. He peers into the future to look at the greatest challenge facing the world today: Will the Liberal Order survive, collapse or mutate? Is the world at a cusp? Is history-the old saga of blood, sweat and tears-about to resume its course?Politicshock analyses Trump and Modi and other outsiders who have come to the fore not as freaks but as results of systematic forces-economic, social, political and cultural-who will now shape the critical destiny of the time that we live in.

This volume, a companion to Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes, is published in honour of Victoria Chick, and represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in Keynesian Methodology and Microeconomics.

This volume is published in honour of Victoria Chick. It represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in Keynsian monetary theory and macroeconomics by leading figures in these fields.

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed.