{"product_id":"sense-and-solidarity-9788178245232","title":"Sense And Solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean Dreze\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Drèze has a rare and distinctive understanding of the Indian economy and its relationship with the social life of ordinary people. He has travelled widely in rural India and done fieldwork of a kind that few economists have attempted. This has enabled him to make invaluable contributions not only to public debates on economic and social policy but also to our knowledge of the actual state of the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nDrèze’s insights on India’s “unfashionable” issues – hunger, poverty, inequality, corruption, and conflict – are all on display here and offer a unique perspective on the evolution of social policy over roughly the past two decades. Historic legislations and initiatives of the period, relating for instance to the right to food and the right to work, are all scrutinised and explained, as are the fierce debates that often accompanied them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n“Jholawala” has become a disparaging term for activists in the business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed Introduction, Drèze persuasively argues for an approach to development economics where research and action become inseparably interconnected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nThis is a book as much for economists as for every reading citizen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616495952023,"sku":"9788178245232","price":427.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178245232.webp?v=1769294944","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sense-and-solidarity-9788178245232","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}