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About Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian political economist and political commentator. His books include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism (1997), The Value of Money (2009), and Re-envisioning Socialism (2011).
  • Mereka sudah memiliki kekayaan yang melimpah ruah untuk dihabiskan di sepanjang usia mereka.

    Fiscal transfers to capitalists

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on November 24, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    It is common for governments these days to provide fiscal transfers to capitalists, whether through reduced corporate tax rates, or by providing direct cash subsidies, to encourage greater investment by them and thereby stimulate the economy. During Donald Trump’s first presidency there had been a cut in corporate tax rate with this objective in mind. In India the Modi government, as is well-known, has given massive tax concessions with the same objective.

  • The Nature of Public Opinion - American Government

    The crisis of Liberalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on November 17, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The political philosophy of classical liberalism, which provided the basis for liberal political praxis, was sustained by a long tradition of bourgeois economic thought, straddling both classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

  • BRICS

    The Kazan summit of BRICS

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 10, 2024 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The BRICS declaration presumes that the international institutions in their current state are flawed because they are dominated by imperialist countries and are not representative enough; but they are flawed because their very essence is flawed, no matter how they are governed.

  • Wealth and poverty (And to all a good night)

    The dialectics of wealth and poverty

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 27, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THIS year’s Nobel Prize in economics (the Riksbank Prize to be more precise) has been awarded to three U.S.-based economists for their research into what promotes or hinders the growth of wealth among nations; and they assign a crucial role to institutions, arguing that western institutions like electoral democracy are conducive to growth.

  • A meeting of experts on measuring poverty and income inequality was held

    How not to measure poverty

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 20, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Several international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call “poverty”.

  • Suwandi, I. (2019). Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism. New York: Monthly Review Press

    Imperialism’s striving for expansion

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 13, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The further development of the centralisation of capital, leading to its consolidation, has on the one hand muted inter-imperialist rivalry, since capital now wants the entire world, not broken up into spheres of influence of rival powers, as the domain for its unrestricted movement; on the other hand it has also led to an attempt on the part of now-united imperialism to reassert its hegemony over the territories that had broken off from it earlier.

  • Economic stagnation: drowning in surplus

    The stagnation of the world economy

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 6, 2024 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute.

  • Anti-French protesters rally in support of the Niger's military government on August 28 in Niamey. Photo: Issifou Djibo / EPA / TASS

    West Africa’s resistance against imperialism

    Originally published: West Africa’s resistance against imperialism on September 29, 2024 (more by West Africa’s resistance against imperialism)

    WEST Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonization of the sort that India did.

  • Democracy in America, from the Early Republic to the Jacksonian Era

    The bizarre state of Western democracy

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on September 8, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

  • Modi / Zelensky

    The criminality of unilateral sanctions

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on September 1, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions.

  • Homes beside the railroad tracks in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh.

    The transient “miracles”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 25, 2024 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Right until 2021 Bangladesh was considered a success story of export-led growth within a neoliberal setting.

  • Time is money

    The pitfalls of growth under unrestricted trade

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on August 18, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The French economist J B Say had believed that there could never be a problem of aggregate demand in any economy, that whatever was produced was ipso facto demanded.

  • Chittaprosad, Hungry Bengal, 1945.

    Adam Smith on Bengal and North America

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on July 21, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    In his opus ‘The Wealth of Nations’ published in 1776 Adam Smith drew a distinction between the progressive state, the stationary state and the declining state.

  • Wikimedia Commons File:Extreme-poverty-and-hunger.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    The specific form of poverty under capitalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 30, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.

  • KeatonPatti / TheDigitalArtist / Emily Cho

    AI and employment

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 23, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.

  • The U.S. Is The Biggest Terrorist Organization On Earth

    Global diffusion of production and the concept of imperialism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 16, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THERE has been a significant diffusion of production occurring in the world economy. Many call this phenomenon a shift from a U.S.-led world economy to a “multipolar world economy”, but no matter what one thinks of this description, the fact of diffusion is indubitable.

  • 2019 polls: Actionable plan to end corruption, generate jobs discussed with political parties

    What is to be done about unemployment?

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 9, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems).

  • BJP

    How BJP masked its class agenda with false religious narrative

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on June 2, 2024 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    In attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons.

  • Protest against Israel's Gaza Blockade and attack on humanitarian flotilla - Melbourne 5 June 2010.

    Chicanery versus humanity

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 19, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

     The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

  • Neoliberalism (Photo credit: Tiago Hoisel)

    The crisis of liberalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 12, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Modern liberalism was developed in response to the Bolshevik Revolution during the capitalist crisis of the inter-war period, as a way of resolving that crisis, and other similar crises that could arise in future, without transcending capitalism.

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  • Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End July 01, 2019
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  • <em>Monopoly Capital</em> Then and Now July 01, 2016
  • Capitalism and Its Current Crisis January 01, 2016
  • Imperialism in the Era of Globalization July 01, 2015
  • Capitalism in Asia at the End of the Millennium July 01, 1999

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  • Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present March 10, 2021

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