Articles by Krishna Bharadwaj

Issues of pay-scales and promotion have appeared to be at the centre of the unprecedented nationwide strike of university and college teachers. It is less well known, unfortunately, that the teaching community has been concerned about a number of deeper issues which affect the entire philosophy of education, the social status and role of the academic community in society, the environment in which the academic community functions and the values which it fosters.

Krishna Bharadwaj In his " Unequal Exchange'', Arghiri Emmanuel raises the question of economic inequalities among nations, their persistence, and their accentuation. Emmanuel's thesis runs counter to the traditional comparative costs doctrine and the subsequent terms of trade explanation which are both analytically inadequate. He also rightly stresses the internationalisation of capital However, Emmanuel's attempt to offer a theory of imperialism through unequal exchange in trade is not only unsatisfactory but also not sustainable

This is a preliminary sketch suggesting no more than an approach to the intricate problem of interregional differentiation in India. It puts down certain broad and preliminary observations, based on secondary materials, which appear to have interesting implications.


today, however, is the second implication of Stigler's claim which has a much wider and deeper currency: that Adam Smith is the theoretical progenitor of the later equilibrium theory based on the supply and demand market mechanism. In the current history of economic thought the notion widely prevails that Smith is the precursor of two very divergent streams of thought

"dictatorship by itself, "democracy by itself"; both dictatorship and democracy are used as abstract, absolute concepts, totally opposed. Consequently it opposes the organisation of workers as the dominant class by means of control of state power and democratic mass struggle for the emancipation of workers. In other words, it confounds the dictatorship of the proletariat with a certain form of repressive government associated with certain 'socialist' states whereas the concept refers to the class content of state power and has for its objective the destruction of the existing state apparatus, on which is based the class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie