Böcker av Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Traces the global history of human change and survival under the sway of capitalism since the voyages of Columbus.

This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor supplies, as against demand conditions. In the second part, all the major manufacturing industries of the period are studied in detail.

The division of the world into rich and poor nations, and the division within poor nations between the very rich and the poor majority, has long been obvious to careful observers. This book gives an overview of the problems of underdevelopment confronting third-world countries, making use of Marxist and neo-Keynesian methods of analysis.