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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).
  • A man looks on as he waits outside his house during the power cut in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 30, 2022.

    Reflections on the Sri Lankan economic crisis

    Originally published: Global South Colloquy (GSC) on April 30, 2022 (more by Global South Colloquy (GSC))

    The American establishment and the new cold-warriors of that country put the blame on the Sri Lankan government’s developing close economic relations with China (and we shall no doubt hear much more of it in the coming days); others blame the sheer “irresponsibility” of the government which is accused of “sleeping” when Sri Lanka’s external debt was building up.

  • Welcome to the rich Indians club

    Tendency towards the emergence of an “international” middle class

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 29, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The chancellor of the exchequer of Britain, whose official residence is only next door to the British prime minister’s, is Rishi Sunak, a person of Indian origin. Britain’s home secretary is Priti Patel, also of Indian origin.

  • Housing, Rents, Evictions, Homelessness.

    The inhumanity of capitalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 15, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    For over two years now, the world has been facing a pandemic the like of which has not been seen for a century, and which has already taken 15 million lives according to the WHO, without being anywhere near an end.

  • Russia - Ukraine war feeds food inflation in North Africa.

    Food and decolonisation

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 8, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    RUSSIA and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war; and this disruption would continue since the war is also affecting the acreage being sown under foodgrains there.

  • Sri Lanka 5 rupie Cricket World Cup

    Reflections on the Sri Lankan economic crisis

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 1, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The American establishment and the new cold-warriors of that country put the blame on the Sri Lankan government’s developing close economic relations with China (and we shall no doubt hear much more of it in the coming days); others blame the sheer “irresponsibility” of the government which is accused of “sleeping” when Sri Lanka’s external debt was building up.

  • https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2022/0327_pd/irony-sanctions-against-russia

    The irony of sanctions against Russia

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 27, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The juggling which U.S. imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia.

  • Globalisation and the Relocation of Capital and Labour

    Globalisation and the relocation of capital and labour

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 20, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The twin phenomena associated with contemporary globalisation, of migration of capital from the metropolis to parts of the third world, and of migration of labour from the erstwhile second world to the metropolis, have the effect of weakening the working class movement everywhere.

  • 50 rupee

    Sanctions within a regime of neo-liberalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 13, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Before joining the neo-liberal order, India used to have “rupee payment arrangements” with the Soviet Union and Eastern European socialist countries under which the main international reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, was used neither for settling transactions nor even as the unit of account in terms of which the trade-related transactions were denominated.

  • IMF Ukraine

    The IMF connection with the Ukraine crisis

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 6, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THE security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention.

  • American imperialism - Wikipedia

    Imperialism as an abiding phenomenon

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on February 27, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The essence of the relationship of imperialism lies in the control over the world’s resources, including land-use, by the metropolitan powers.

  • Economic inequality: still on the presidential agenda, still much more to be done. | USAPP

    An unimaginable contrast

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on February 20, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Much has been written about the immense increase in economic inequality that has occurred of late and various startling figures have been provided by bodies like Oxfam, which has just come out with a report titled ‘Inequality Kills.’

  • PxHere Free Images : chase, money, businessman, follow, greenback, pursuit, banknote, opportunity, jump, dream, entrepreneur, expression

    Why capitalist governments worry more about inflation than unemployment?

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on February 13, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment.

  • The Ugliness of colonial power in India

    Social sciences and the colonised mind

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on January 23, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    A CRUCIAL component of the imperialist system is the colonisation of third world minds that helps to sustain it. This colonisation is pervasive, but here we shall discuss only academic colonisation and that too relating to the social sciences.

  • Financial Markets Under Capitalism

    Financial Markets under capitalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on January 16, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed.

  • Capitalism is killing us!

    Yet another contradiction of capitalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on January 2, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    In the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration’s attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just in that country but elsewhere in the capitalist world as well.

  • More inflation to come?

    U.S. inflation and India’s economic recovery

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on December 19, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the U.S. inflation rate.

  • How has COVID-19 affected India’s economy? (Photo: Shubhangee Vyas / Unsplash)

    India’s post-pandemic economic recovery

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on December 12, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    The pandemic alas is not yet over, but there are no economic disruptions in the current fiscal year in the form of lockdowns or workers’ absence. The economy’s performance therefore can no longer be attributed to the prevalence of the pandemic; whatever it is, it is caused by economic factors.

  • From farm and forest: Long March to Mumbai

    The peasantry’s victory over imperialism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on November 28, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    One should scarcely be surprised therefore by the fact that the western media have been so critical of the Modi government for its climbdown.

  • Indian summer classroom

    The homogenisation of education

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 31, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Education in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word).

  • 15% India is undernourished, as Rs 50,000 crore food goes waste

    Foodstocks, bio-fuels and hunger

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 24, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THE Modi government’s attempt to “explain” away India’s slipping from being 94th on the world hunger index in 2020 to 101st in 2021, a rank well below that of neighbours Pakistan, Nepal or Bangladesh, by questioning the “methodology” of the index, is jejune enough; but even more shocking is its total inability to see the reason behind the acute hunger in the country.

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  • The Drain of Wealth February 01, 2021
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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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